The highlights of a beautiful evening at Old Lodge Nature Reserve in the Ashdown Forest were:

• a hobby
• family groups of stonechats
• reasonably good views of a singing Dartford warbler
• a vocal raven
• displaying siskins
• a singing woodlark and a tree pipit
• common redstart male and female seen
• a churring nightjar (seen in flight)
• a roding woodcock (joined by a second bird on the second pass overhead)