A short walk around the pond area of Penn Common. It did coincide with some sharp showers but if we only went birding in good weather we wouldn't be out that often.
A whitethroat was gathering insects and dropping into a low bush that was a likely nest site. A little further ahead in the nesting scale was a male blackcap and 2 juveniles in a dense hawthorn bush. There may have been more birds, but that's all I could see.
A flock of c.100 starling around the pond. In the field system beyond the common a scan with the binoculars revealed a distant red-legged partridge.