Hilfield April 28th

I hoped, in vain, that today would be the first of my monthly 1 hour bird watches in which I try to find as many bird species around Hilfield as I can. I waited until 4 in the afternoon for the torrential rain to turn to drizzle, but almost as soon I set out the rain restarted. I had to turn back after 10 miserable minutes, but I did find two blackcaps, a chiffchaff and 4 starlings (a bird we don't often see around here) as well as a number of the commoner species, including a buzzard and a long tailed tit.