An afternoon spent tidying up the garden ("At last", I hear the neighbours say) allowed lots of casual natural connections including a Black headed Gull mobbing a soaring Sparrowhawk, a flock of Redwings overhead and plenty of small birds (Blue Tit, Long tailed Tit and House Sparrow) calling from different parts of the glade.
Later, just after dusk, four Whooper Swans flew, calling, low over the railway wood (a new species for the square).