An early start again, being at Much Hadham at 6.30a.m. for a walk along the valley and over the golf course. Usual fare, with a singing blackcap being particularly pleasing. However, as I was just leaving the G.C. I noted a bird in a tree some 100 yards in front: orange tinge to breast plumage led me to id it as a female wheatear, a bird on migration passage and heading for northern moorland. Only the 3rd time I have recorded this species in the parish. Good views and some distant photos. Soon after, a singing willow warbler at The Ford. 5 photos of the wheatearn plus a green woodpecker and singing dunnock.
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