Foreign holidays and work meant that not much local birding was achieved during the two months. Here is a selection of the highlights: 2/8/10 Pagney – 4 Turtle Doves, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 immature Purple Heron, 8 Red-backed Shrikes and 1 immature Water Rail. Osselle- 2 Black Kites, 2 Hobby, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Black-headed Gulls, 2 adult and a juvenile Bee Eater, 2 Red-backed Shrikes and a few Melodious Warblers. 4/9/10 Pagney – 1 Whitethroat, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Little Grebe, 1 eclipse male Red-crested Pochard. Osselle – 1 female Teal, 1 male Pochard, 1 Snipe, 1 Wryneck, 1 Tree Pipit, 4 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Cirl Buntings. 23/9/10 Pagney – 1 Red Kite, 1 Snipe, 1 imm Marsh Harrier, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Black woodpecker, 1 Meadow Pipit.