20th - An afternoon visit to Gimeaux and Vaccares today. The rice fields at Gimeaux still held half a dozen post-breeding  Black-winged Stilts and overhead I noted 6 Whiskered Terns, 3 Gull-billed Terns and 2 Common Terns. Further along the road 35 Bee-eaters, including 15 juveniles, were perched on the cattle fences along with 200+ Starlings. A quick visit to Mas Lauricet produced adult and juvenile Rollers, both perched in trees and giving excellent views, and 3 Common Buzzards seen soaring distantly over St. Gilles. At Vaccares, 3 Common Sandpipers were spotted feeding along the shoreline and a single Wood Sandpiper flew over. On the lake 4 Black-necked Grebes and a Little Grebe joined around 20 Great Crested Grebes. Then I spotted a harrier approaching from the south and assumed it was a Hen Harrier but as it flew past it was obviously a "stonking" male Pallid Harrier. It continued northwards before I had a chance to get the camera out! This was the first male Pallid Harrier I have seen in France! At the Etang de TdV I spotted a pair of Short-toed Eagles that were alternately hovering and gliding as they searched for food. On the Etang itself were a pair of Little Terns, 5 Mute Swans, 12 Mallards and a feeding Purple Heron. In the fields by TdV a Hobby was spotted perched on a fence and 2 Crested Larks flew over.