Trip round Thursley to try and pick up the local specialities (Wood Lark, Tree Pipit, Redstart, Curlew). Heading out from the Moat car park (Goldcrests and Coal Tit in the woods) had a Snipe flying over flushed by dogwalkers, loads of Whitethroats (but no Dartford - recorded numbers have been really low here following the severe conditions last winter), Cuckoo singing, Redshank calling from somewhere, millions of Chaffinches (at least 40 over the whole site), walking south from the boardwalk (past the dragonfly sing through the stand of trees that used to have breeding Redstart before the were burnt down) picked up a big raptor that immediately resolved itself into an Osprey soaring over and then behind the tree line.
Heading further south, picked up a series of Tree Pipits singing, then started up a sandy track heading uphill that produced at least 2 Willow Warblers, 2 Buzzards, singing Redstart, another couple of Tree Pipits, a few more Cuckoos (for a total of 3-4), Stonechat and, looking back north the Osprey again - this time perched in a tree.
Woods around this end also held Treecreeper and Coal Tit.
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