Hello again
It is Thursday, August 18th, and the weather has truly broken today, from scorching sunshine to miserable greyness! Still, there are a few more birds about on the feeders — blue and great tits, 
chaffinches and goldfinches. I’m afraid we’ve had a fatality — a young jackdaw. It looked a bit sorry for itself yesterday, and has expired during the night –very sad!
Many of you will know there is a lovely buddleia by the stream. There have been lots of butterflies on it recently — I saw peacocks, red admirals, small tortoiseshells and a painted lady — plus whites , of course!
Len tells me that a red kite has been seen near Colestocks recently. It 
would be great if he or she stayed around, because we don’t see many of them in East Devon. There are lots of them in other parts of the country, mainly in the Chilterns and Wales. You may know that red kites were hunted to extinction in Britain in the nineteenth century.
Pam has seen a little owl in Luton and Biddie tells me she had a pair of green woodpeckers in her garden. Tony has been visited by a posse of long tailed tits, and I’ve seen them too!
Alan Jones — 01404 841671
