Where there's Muck....

......there should be birds.
A quick visit to Ravenstone Sewage Works on the way home tonight.
A scan of the banks on the walk down failed to produce any of the hoped for Wheatears, but as I approached the works I noticed the familiar hop and skip of what turned out to be a female of this species alongside the track.
At the works itself the usual suspects were present : a pair of Grey and a single Pied Wagtail, 8 Reed Buntings, some Chaffinch and a Dunnock were all finding some tasty tit-bits amongst the gunge. A couple of Chiffchaffs and 2 singing male Yellowhammers were in the surrounding bushes.
As I walked back a flock of 8 Stock Doves flew across, and I then noticed a smallish bird in the cereal field which I presumed would be the female Wheatear, - not so as this one was a male, so 2 birds present.

A Handful of Smarties

I popped in to Tongwell this lunchtime. It was pretty standard fare with a few Mallards, Tufteds, Canada and Greylag Geese, Mute Swans, Coots, Moorhens, Great crested Grebes and a Cormorant.
I did however manage to catch up with my first Sand Martins of the year, a group of five that were flying around in the company of one Swallow.
A pair of Grey Wagtails were on the dam as was a single of both Black-headed and Common Gull.
From here I braved the traffic to take a look at the Gravel Works over the road, where there was still a minimum of 2 Green Sandpipers but very little else.