A brief walk around this morning via the Medieval dovecote field and the adjacent large field above Sully Brook gave me a couple of ‘year ticks’ in the form of a singing Common Whitethroat in scrub near the dovecote ruin itself, including two brief ‘butterfly’ song flights, and then farther on in scrub in the large ‘island’ of vegetation in the next large field, a singing Lesser Whitethroat. Neither bird was particularly showy due to the pretty cold stiff wind.