What have you seen

OH, WN, was it a Slow Slow Quick Quick Slow worm then 

Nice one Brian.😀

After a very slow start we've heard more Cuckoos than ever recently. Two days ago we heard at least 3 while we were out walking up to Bircher Common, and then this evening we heard another from our new site at Loggerheads, near Market Drayton.

Bl**dy roe deer have come down out of the forest and eaten the tops of my garlic as their first course and tackled the lupins for dessert.

Yes ET deer do like our plants I have had the same at home a few years ago they ate all my violas in a large pot and left the roots in.

We have got huge numbers of swifts around our cottage here in the Cantal and today at Conques there were a lot flying about especially around the church, also a lot of red kites and buzzards here, saw a few grey wagtails down by the river Lot this afternoon.

Deer once "pruned" our roses so neatly I thought a perfectionist neighbour had done it !!

At least the Deer should taste nice, if you can catch them ET.

Had sightings of Red Kite and Sand Martins, the latter at Chatsworth as we walked by the river.

Dipper with 3 young on the stream at Roughlee this morning. We see dippers there quite regularly, knew they were nesting under a bridge, so really pleased to see they’ve been successful.

Red Kites seem to be all over nowadays. There have been over our site here near Market Drayton, well away from the release regions.

There are at least one pair of Lapwings in a field in front of the caravans. You can hear them when they are being annoyed by the resident crows, but today I saw one chasing away a buzzards and then being assisted by the said crows.

We stopped in Salers Cantal for lunch and again a lot of swifts but even more jackdaws all chatting away we do not get them at home.

Now at second gite very good and more views and even more birds about here had a hoopoe fly over the garden and also a lot of bird of prey about so will take binos with me on the local walks.

OH bought me a book to wildlife in this area very interesting.