The choughs aren't around here. Dammit, forgot about the pied and grey wagtails. Add them to the list of "occasionals." Skylarks as well on the next-door field. There are plenty of stonechats, linnets and rock pipits a few hundred yards away on the cliffs, and we get lots of wheatears there all summer. A heron completely cleared my pond this autumn of my golden orfes. Every one gone. It'll be a wildlife pond from now on. No fish to eat the tadpoles every spring. We have thriving populations of frogs and toads, and the full-size toads are genuinely friendly beasts that don't mind you talking to them or even giving them a chuck-chuck under the chin.