Not much to report today I'm afraid. Weather wasn't great but we managed a couple of hours at Holm Hill / Crab Tree Earth looking for that pesky Shrike. I wish I could say that we had finally seen it, but no such luck. We did see a few goldcrests and some stonechats. Rain stopped play and we headed for home.
On the way home I asked my husband to stop in the carpark at Boltons Bench in Lyndhurst. He wondered what on earth I wanted to stop there for. I asked him to park the car at the far end next to some silver birch trees as I had a feeling we might see something.
Then the rain stopped and lots of little birds appeared. Two song thrushes, quite a few chaffinches, lots of greenfinches, robins, blue tits, great tits, dunnock and my husband spotted a treecreeper! We sat in the car and watched the treecreeper flit from tree to tree for at least 10 minutes - perfect!
