Highlight this morning was the four Common Buzzards circling overhead at Meadow Lane GP. Also on the GP were 14 Lapwing, 3 Redshank, a Kestrel and a Ringed Plover. In the field on the opposite side of the cycle track from the GP were 2 more Ringed Plovers and 4 more Lapwing.
2 of the 4 Common Buzzards
At the main lake hide a Common Tern was very obliging in posing for a photograph. It had a metal ring on it's right leg (SX__643 the first number might be a 2).
Common Tern
The pair of Cuckoos were around the Finger lakes again. There were only 6 cygnets with the pair of Mute Swans but both young Great Crested Grebes are still about with one of them looking very independent, they don't turn down a free meal from mum and dad though!
Along the cycle track up past Fishponds a Lesser Whitethroat sang briefly. Common Whitethroat and Sedge Warbler were singing along the edge of the old allotments by the Aspects car park.
