24 Apr 23

Old Quarry Lane, Wakeham Meadows, Lower Horse Paddock, Higher Horse Paddock, Broadcroft Butterfly Reserve, Broadcroft Quarry Lane and Bumpers Lane.

It was a very late afternoons walk, so unsurprisingly there was very little about. main highlights were two male Common Whitethroats singing in the butterfly reserve and a Chiffchaff singing along Old Quarry Lane.

Birds Recorded:
1 Kestrel
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
2 Common Whitethroat
1 Chiffchaff
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch

A Wood Pigeon

A male Chaffinch and a few bursts of song in between preening

A male Linnet and.........

...............his mate


Bees Recorded
:
Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)


Plants:
Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)
American Winter-cress (Barbarea verna)
Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)

Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)

American Winter-cress (Barbarea verna)

Wild Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)


Ted:

I can still see you Ted