First trip to Plantsbrook in nearly five weeks and it looks a lot greener and browner and more colourful than the last visit, it was also quite pleasant being as rain was forecast. Highlight of the day was seeing a male Blackcap singing and a female Mallard with eight very young Ducklings (that's them disappearing further into one of the pools in the sixth picture) I also saw four Coot chicks, two of each from different families. There was also a Mute Swan on the nest, she's gone back to her usual nesting place and not the different spot she chose last year for some reason, other nesting waterfowl were, Great Crested Grebe (1) Canada Goose (1) and Coot (12), as I've said before, the more chicks the better. Birds spotted today were Blackcap (Male), Reed Bunting, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, Jay, Collared Dove, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Grey Wagtail, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck, Mallard and Canada Goose. The cat in the last picture didn't appear to be a stray being as it had a nice coat and seemed fit and well fed, but what winds me up is that it had no collar and more importantly no bell, just the simple act of putting a bell on the collar of a cat saves many birds lives a year, my cat has four on her collar, blinged up to the max she is.
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