My second walk covered roughly the same area and started out pretty much as 2 days earlier with birds in the garden including Black Redstarts, House Sparrows, Fieldfares and Starlings. A Golden Oriole was again heard signing from the top of the poplar hedge at the end of the garden. Due to the breeze blowing the leaves the bird could not be located but 1 Oriole was seen flying away. Across the track were 2 Red-Backed Shrikes – a male and either a female or juvenile.
Heading down the sandy track Jackdaws, Swallows, Skylarks and a Blackbird were seen.
Skylark
As I arrived at the forest I saw Great Tits and Chaffinches. I walked around the edge of the clearing hoping to see a woodpecker but none were to be seen. I did however see Blue Tits a Golden Oriole a Hawfinch and a Willow Warbler. A Hobby was perched in a tree and flew off as I approached.
Along the edge of the dump were another Red-Backed Shrike and a Blackcap. In the fields beyond were several Rooks, a Yellowhammer and a White Wagtail.
After this I went to have a look at a small lake. Just before the lake some excavation work had been done. Here a few Sand Martins were burrowing in the sand. A Red-Backed Shrike was in the bushes. A Hooded Crow flew over.
Sand Martins
Red-Backed Shrike
On the lake were Mallards, Coots, Tufted Ducks and Pochards. The Pochards had ducklings.
Heading back to the track a Buzzard was seen flying over and another Red-Backed Shrike was seen. The number of Red-Backed Shrikes seen today is what I was expecting. I'm not sure why there were so few about a couple of days ago.
As I headed back along the lane to Nowa Wies a Hoopoe, Spotted Flycatcher and Jay were seen and a Nightingale was heard. Further on were a Chiffchaff, Song Thrush, Wood Warbler and Tree Sparrow. Then 2 more Red-Backed Shrikes and a Tree Pipit.
Entering the main forest area a Coal Tit was heard and eventually seen at the top of a conifer tree.
In the clearing at the end of the forest 2 Hobbies were seen initially sitting in the trees and then flying around above the trees hunting. A Buzzard passed over and then a Honey Buzzard appeared from the same area of the forest as previously. The Honey Buzzard was mobbed by the much smaller Hobbies.
Honey Buzzard
An Ortolan Bunting was seen on top of a birch sapling and another was in a conifer at the edge of the forest calling and clearly with some food in its beak.
Ortolan Bunting
I then set off to have another look at the storks' nest. On the way 2 Buzzards flew over together another Hoopoe was seen and some Meadow Pipits were on the track.
At the nest one adult White Stork was present with 3 fairly large juveniles.
White Storks at nest
Near the storks nest was another Red-Backed Shrike, a Corn Bunting, a White Wagtail and a Tree Sparrow.
Heading back to the forest a Nightingale was heard in the distance in the same spot as the other day. 2 Buzzards were over the fields to the East. A wood Pigeon flew over.
Back at the forest 3 Ravens noisily flew out from the trees. A White Stork was soaring over the trees in the distance. It could have been the other adult from the nest.
Raven
In the forest 3 Roe Deer ran across the clearing. One of deer stopped for a while to watch me.
A Goshawk was then seen flying low across the same clearing.
Roe Deer
Back on the main track a Cuckoo was heard and frogs were seen in the small pond.
Frogs
Heading back home the final birds seen were another Buzzard then 2 more Buzzards together, yet another Red-Backed Shrike, a Collard Dove, a Pheasant and another Ortolan Bunting.
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