Friday 20 July, hazy sunshine, light E wind, 34C: The run of sunny days with a hot E wind continues and is making any birding after about 1000hrs very difficult (and the necessary late nights waiting for it to cool down mean I'm too tired to get up at 0700hrs)! Still, there have been a couple of interesting sightings from our terrace here in Gaucin; yesterday two adult and one juvenile Common Buzzard 'displaying' high up and both yesterday and this afternoon a Green Woodpecker over the garden - the first time I've seen this species in the village.