The usual afternoon walk around my home 1km2 square produced some interesting sightings including an exceptional seven Blackcaps - five singing birds, one "tick"ing and scolding like a Sedge Warbler and one shivering its wings while singing. House Sparrows seemed to be more numerous with birds at Bonnyholm and along the river at Moulin. A Raven was mobbed by Carrion Crows as it flew over the area. Many-flowered Leek is now flowering in profusion along the river banks.