Reflections on the week

What a difference an hour makes let alone a day.
It has been a reasonable week for warblers but each day has been different with the only consistently present birds being chiffchaff and blackcap (every day to Saturday).
However I suspect that birds are passing thru with new ones each day as per the one day whitethroat and garden warbler. This is very different to the start of the month when warblers associated with the regular mixed flock most often seen in the paddocks.
Now they are completely separate, witness our experiences when comparing notes one day this week when I went thru the paddocks an hour before Geoff and had the mixed flock including 2 each of coal tit and goldcrest and nuthatch and he had nothing but several chiffies.
Saturday morning I seemed to get to the top of the field ahead of the dog walkers and flushed a reed bunting and meadow pipit from opposite sides of field (sw and se).
Hirundines seem to have gone altho did have flock of house martins on tues but west of the valley swallows were heading south.
The dark plumaged kingfisher seems to have gone but plenty of nuthatch and goldcrest are being seen as well as raven but no wintering birds like little grebe yet.
Grey wagtail seem to have deserted the water bridge probably due to the work on the access rd but had female at spill weir on weds.
Finally a singing blackcap in the paddocks yesterday was a reminder of seasons past.