2012 Egg Lay

The females have just had up to seven days of uninterrupted egg laying.  That's the longest run of good laying weather for several seasons.  It looks as though the weather's about to deteriorate but already it is likely that a good number of eggs have been laid, making this a successful season apart from in Sussex where numbers have been horribly low. 

Here's Herself, a lady of no small consequence - though a second after this photo was taken this huge female flew off in a huff...

Incidentally, we have received no reports from the introduced population in Suffolk this year.  How's it doing?  Also, we never receive any reports from Kent, or on the introduced population in Essex.  News welcome on these fronts...