Well it's been nights of bat work, followed by days of translating a Dutch website into English which has basically prevented me from telling you wild stories of fun and excitement!

Bird wise during the bat work i have seen Barn, Little and Long-eared Owls (and heard Tawnys), plus several Common Quail.

Common Quail_3

Last night i ventured onto the Veluwe where Eurasian Nightjars were fairly active, as well as Tree Pipit, Yellowhammer, Stonechats with young and lots of Common Swifts.

Eurasian Nightjar_1

I then finished the evening by listening for Corncrakes, successfully as you can probably tell from this recording, short and sweet (ok maybe not so sweet!)

Corncrake

And to end with a mystery photo…..it may be easy? but it looks like something else to me!

Not much else happening at the minute, and off to Scotland next week to do some work with Dan, where it will no doubt rain every day and we will eat vast amounts of cholesterol….