We never get much in the garden to be honest, so it's hard to tell, but at the moment it's just starlings, wood pigeons and the occasional blackbird. When I look back at my blog which is virtually my daily diary, most of the headlines in the past few weeks have been butterflies, dragonflies or flowers, but there have been some good birds locally as well and others further afield which I haven't gone for.

Highlights for me in the past few weeks, western reef heron in North Wales, Caspian tern at Budworth mere and 2 black storks at Parkgate.  Martin Mere has been pretty good, regularly good numbers of great white, cattle and little egrets with up to 11 green sandpipers and a single wood sandpiper. A couple of weeks ago at Martin Mere I had 5 great white, 4 cattle, 4 little egrets, grey herons, a bittern and 4 spoonbills all in view at the same time in one relatively small area of marsh, see attached photo. Meanwhile there have been quails everywhere 

Pennington flash has been ok I think, in July I had 2 cracking summer plumage cattle egrets, plus great white and little. Also a few black-necked grebes and little terns and Sandwich terns, plus a flock of 24 drake common scoter and a few yellow wagtails and green sandpipers. 

So overall I think it's been a reasonable few weeks.