Had a lovely morning out by the River Severn doing the monthly bird survey. I was chuffed to spot the leucistic marsh harrier which is a striking and very  unusual bird (picture below but I didn’t take it) 

Some of the highlights of the survey were 50+ curlew, numerous whitethroats, lesser whitethroat, peregrine, 3 kestrels, redstart (my first this year), great white egret, 5 yellow wagtails and a surprise snipe (early for this species). The weather for once was perfect!

A couple of pictures of birds (Hobby and Redstart) we saw below that have been in the blog before (again not my pictures).