Inevitable but still rather dispiriting, it looks like building work has started on Oakgrove. Intended visit at lunchtime found fences and portacabins up, diggers in action on the plain, earth already excavated.
That's half a dozen fewer breeding pairs of Skylark in MK this summer then, and the Gropper habitat torn up.
At the moment, the north side and some of that edge tree belt seems to be untouched, but the plain is completely off limits, and depending on the nature of the work, birds on the smaller northern half could be due for considerable disturbance.
A subsequent visit to Campbell Park failed to lift the spirits. Singing Blackcaps are now into double figures, and the first couple of Willow Warblers have arrived. Chuff all else though.
Time to move to a nice little village somewhere!
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