Middleton Lakes.

Another early morning trip to Middleton Lakes where the highlights of the day was seeing a Hobby take a Greenfinch (it wasn't a highlight for me personally if you know what I mean) the Hobby came out of nowhere and darted into the feeding area where many Greenfinch, Tits and House Sparrow were feeding and took the Greenfinch almost in the blink of an eye, when the Hobby darted down at least 100 songbirds must have flew up in a panic, what a mad start to the day, other highlights was seeing 100 plus Lapwing in an adjacent freshly ploughed field along with many Starling, it was also nice to see an adult and two young Great Crested Grebe on the River Tame. Another great sight occurred just before we entered the lakes, when there was hundreds of Swallow and House Martin that were flying in the nearby fields. Birds spotted today were Hobby, Buzzard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff, Wren, Swallow, House Martin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Starling, House Sparrow, Collared Dove, Pied Wagtail, Little Egret, Lapwing, Gadwall, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Grey Heron, Cormorant, Herring Gull plus the following young, Cygnet (3) and Great Crested Grebe (2) It was nice to get a really good picture of a Butterfly (it was very good and let me lie down by it to get a photo) also in the same area there were plenty of seven spot Ladybirds and a Harlequin Ladybirds. Other wildlife seen today were Horse, Cow, Sheep, farmyard Ducks and Chickens. Also found the feather in the last picture of which is possibly from a Kestrel.