Shustoke Reservoir.

Reservoirs have been like the number 11 bus this week, you wait ages for one and then two turn up at once, firstly Edgbaston Reservoir on Tuesday and then a muggy Shustoke Reservoir today. Highlights of the day was seeing three Skylark in one of the meadows where I'm sure at least one was nesting, a Coal tit chick, a Pied Wagtail chick, a flock of fifty plus Mealy Redpoll and a flock of a hundred plus Starling of which a good fifty per cent were juveniles. Birds spotted were, Skylark, Whitethroat, Mealy Redpoll, Blackcap (male and female), Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Robin, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Starling, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Pied Wagtail, Swallow, Common Tern, Buzzard, Mute Swan, Shelduck, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Pekin Duck, Mallard, Coot, Canada Goose and the following chicks/juveniles Coal Tit (1), Pied Wagtail (1), Blackbird (2), Coot (2), Gosling (1) Starling (50 plus) and the following waterfowl on the nest, Great Crested Grebe (3) and Coot (4). Shustoke Reservoir is another place that's transformed almost overnight, with trees, bushes and hedgerows in full leaf and plenty of colourful wild flowers in evidence. The rabbits must have breeding like.....rabbits as I've never seen so many in one day and many of them being small. The only sad sight of the day was seeing a dead baby mole on the edge of one of the farmers fields.