Today's trip didn't deliver the redstarts and spotted flycatchers I'd hoped for but instead I was treated to some good views of a pied flycatcher singing and exploring a nest box. I'd been down to the Lower Hide and spent some there, but saw none of target birds, surprisingly , as I have often be quite successful there. I heard a redstart briefly but was able to locate it, though some other observers did spot it from outside the hide apparently. The pied flycatcher was a short way along the woodland trail, singing in the trees close to the nest box.
At Cannop Stone works a pair of grey wagtails were busy collecting food for their young, evidently in a nest within a small stone building by the weir.
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