Tuesday 14 May 2013

Tuesday 14th May 2013

Weather :- Started of sunny, but turned to rain.

Reservoir :- Quiet today. 11 lesser-blacked backed gulls, 4 herring gulls, house martins, swallows and 1 swift, 2 coot nests. 2 great crested grebes - one sitting on a nest and a few mallards and coots. Also 2 common terns.

Canal :- few mallards. one family group with 5 ducklings.

Cute or what?

Woods :- blackbirds, robins, blue tits and great tits all seen with insects in beaks. Male blackcap, bullfinch, chiffchaff and willow warbler heard.

Flowers :- dandelions, herb Robert, wood-forget-me knot, buttercups, lily of the valley and nettles all flowering. And lots and lots and lots of bluebells.

Bluebell

Laurel flowers



3 comments:

  1. AWWWW There's the ducklings, haven't seen them since there was 12 of them, where about's was they, the last time I saw them, they was at the steps bit of the canal

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  2. Back of the reservoir. Also just added the 2 common terns to the blog, that were also on the reservoir.

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  3. you did, two terns, flip, i couldn't go out today, had stuff on, awww ducklings still with us woo hooooo

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