Sunday, 28 July 2024

28th July - mostly sunny, 25C, light SSW

Lilbourne Meadows - morning

A Green and Common Sandpiper, also an Oystercatcher and a Snipe, plus Lapwing and three Little Ringed Plovers.

Six Little Egrets, a Yellow Wagtail.

A female and juv Reed Bunting near the pools and a Yellowhammer sang a little.

Male Redstart on the hedge fence still.

Newbold Quarry; afternoon.

Mainly looking for Butterflies, but a Great Crested Grebes pair has two juvs on the pool.  A Green Woodpecker was heard too.

Butterflies were: Common and Holly Blues, Ringlet, Gatekeeper, Peacock, Red Admiral, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Large White, Green-veined White.





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