Called in at Danebury Down late morning for a brief look around. Looked like a super place with plenty of grazed open grassland, varying densities of bushes around the hilltop, and a small wood. Plus an awesome view in all directions. Plenty of Song Thrushes, Blackbirds, Fieldfares and Redwings around the fort, and best of all a nice Male Wheatear in one of the more open fields. Two Buzzards engaged in aerial combat as I returned to the car.
Was a very difficult place to birdwatch in.. little hillocks everywhere with birds out of view behind them, and virtually everything I saw in this brief visit had already seen me coming. Suspect a slower paced walk round the lower path with a few stakeouts may be my best chance.
The surrounding area is probably my best chance of finding a Hampshire Corn Bunting.
The Wheatear is my earliest ever in the UK! beating last year's first sighting, on Quainton Hill, by 2 days.
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