With the nice weather today I visited Kelling Heath to look for Silver-studded Blues and wasn't disappointed with around a dozen showing well just over the railway crossing.
A good number of Crossbills were flying round, particularly favouring the pine trees on the edge of the garden of the house by the crossing. The biggest flock I counted was of 25 birds but quite a few smaller flocks were also seen so there's obviously a healthy population up there at present. Other birds noted included a Turtle Dove purring away, a Common Buzzard hovering high up in the sky and the usual Stonechats.
