General (county) news - 30th May 2010

• A Java Sparrow (escaped exotic finch) has been in Mr.T's garden all week. I think our local hawks will have seen it by now, and it will be lunch for one of them soon enough!
• Club-tailed dragonflies starting to appear over Thames now.
  
  
• One of the Great-crested Grebe chicks that I've been following since they hatched has disappeared - maybe a pike I guess.