3rd - 4th June

Again, not too much of great import to relay with more surveying taking the fore but a little walk along my stretch of the River Teme on the 3rd produced all the regular birds including a young Dipper, a Kingfisher, Goosanders, a pair of Mandarin, Little Ringed Plovers and Common Sandpipers, Red Kites, Ravens, a couple of singing Redstarts and a couple of Spotted Flycatchers while both Beautiful and Banded Demoiselles were on the wing.

On the way back on the 4th we popped into Brockholes Gravel Pits close to Hereford where birds included a single Avocet (pretty scarce inland in the Midlands), at least 5 Ringed Plovers with a few pairs of Little Ringed Plovers and a second summer Mediterranean Gull in amongst the Black-headed Gull colony.

Beautiful Demoiselle

Mute Swans

Dunlin during a very brief drop in to Draycote Water

Blackcap

Swallow

House Martins

Little Grebe