Pair of red kites seen over Manuden last week. Flying through being mobbed by jackdaws.

Reed bunting in garden today - a first sighting for me in Manuden

Doing the RSPB garden birdwatch this weekend? See anything unusal?

In the garden today: Blue tits, great tits, fieldfares, female greater spot woodpecker, goldfinches, greenfinches, coal tit, pied wagtail, dunnock, collared dove, blackbirds, robin, wren, pheasants and resident squirrel.

News ! Manuden and Berden History Society, 19 May @ 8pm at the Little Barn at The Bury, Manuden.
A talk by Kenneth Adams,Botanical Society of the British Isles Recorder of Essex. He will talk on the past and present flora of ancient track ways, greenways etc.
(Open to non-members)