After yesterday's excess, took it easy with a 10km bike ride along the banks for the Petit Rhone this morning. Plenty of birds with only a carrion crow and little grebe new for the trip list. Back to town, left bike at accommodation and took bus 20 km north to Paty de la Trinite. Then a long walk along farm tracks where I know it's good for dragonflies as well as birds. Greeted by gull billed terns over fields + usual array of egrets and herons. Warblers, mainly spectacled, melodious and fan tailed in the vegetation plus the highlight, a juv squacco heron surprised me as I flushed it from its perch. Too fast for me and the camera. Purple heron overhead was good, unfortunately had 35mm lens for dragonflies on the camera at the time. A search around an area where I have had short toed eagle before turned up 100's of starlings and bee eaters but nothing else. All in all, a brilliant trip with 70+ sp seen, plus loadss of other wildlife. Aim to return when birds here will be in larger numbers, with migrants a plenty. Maybe Sept or April next year. Photos today, female red veined darter munching a damselfly, dead scarlet darter found on track and some views, last one taken at the end of today's walk. All brilliant.
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