Great weather for birdspotting and walikng today, even though a lot of the song birds appeared to be in hiding today, and there's a lot more leaf cover this time of the year. Notable birds spotted were Chiffchaff, Tree Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Great Crested Grebe (including one on a nest) Moorhen, Grey Heron, Tufted Duck and Moorhen, also saw a couple of cheeky Grey Squirrels. No sign of the Red Kite though that is nesting at a site in nearby Marston Green and has been seen recently at Babbs Mill by some of the locals. Babbs Mills is currently undergoing a bit of a redevelopment with a brand new picnic area (which is all very well as long as the chavs don't leave their litter behind, even though there's no hope of that judging by what I picked up today) they are also putting in recycled plastic fishing pegs similar to these britishrecycledproducts.co.uk There are currently about 10 pegs (all in use today) with more planned if these ones are not vandalised, yet again no hope of that ! Pity we can't have a chav cull.
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