Thursday 29 May 2014, Gaucin, sunny, light W-NW wind, 26C

After a chilly damp day yesterday, 4mm of rain fell mostly in the early hours of Wednesday, today it was back to a warm summery feel. A Common Nightingale has taken to calling persistently, and singing occasionally, from the Walnut tree in the garden; in the same tree at 1630hrs was a striking adult male Hawfinch, unusual in the garden at this time of year. At 1930hrs 4 Honey Buzzard drifted over the west of the village in front of El Hacho.