Had a quick look at a couple of local areas Saturday morning. Convinced myself there was absolutely nothing about, then spent the weekend doing DIY!
Monday early morning, I headed for the New Forest for a few hours despite the weather being fairly poor.
Highlights in Bolderwood area were at least 4 Tawny Owls flying up from the track at various points. Suspect there were youngsters involved, but they were very well spread out for a single family, probably about 1 mile apart. One that did show well after landing was a nice adult. Best views I've had of a Tawny for a few years. Further on a Fox was causing a commotion in the forest. As he stalked off, another Tawny Owl flew up from the undergrowth. Quite a bizarre walk.
Also in the forest were a few Redstarts (superb views of a male), a couple of Wood Warblers heard, a Marsh Tit and 2 flyover Crossbills.
Tried some short walks from other car parks in the forest and heard at least one Firecrest, which I couldn't see unfortunately. Dozens and dozens of Goldcrests. I might take my bat detector out and record the two songs for analysis of the spectrograms! The bat Detector gets absolutely swamped by Robins and Blackbirds in the early evenings, so crests will be just the right frequency for it I should think.
Hoe Lane's Lapwings have fledged with at least 2 "balls of fluff" running round the field! | 
