Plantsbrook Nature Reserve.

Another strange trip out today, when I first got to Plantsbrook it decided to rain but I set off anyway then half way around the walk it stopped raining then in the blink of an eye it was all blue skies and very warm and muggy weather, the Great British Summer ! Birds spotted were, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, Robin, Starling, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Grey Heron, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Canada Goose and the following chicks/juveniles, Duckling (22), Coot (13), Blue Tit and Great Tit. The Mute Swan and Cygnets have now relocated to the nearby Pype Hayes Fishing Pool, apparently they went to Pype Hayes, came back to Plantsbrook and the went back to Pype Hayes again, where there was one of last years Cygnets still resident of which the male adult Mute Swan has tried to drown but thankfully members of the public intervened, phoned the RSPCA, who then came and rescued it and took it off to pastures new, ironically exactly the same thing is happening at Babbs Mill, where last years Cygnet is hiding away on the far side of the pool where the locals are trying to keep an eye on it and keep it well fed. Weather permitting I'll check on the Mute Swan and Cygnets at Pype Hayes Park on Saturday, I had planned to go to Edgbaston Reservoir but with torrential rain forecast I'm not going to risk it. The only noteworthy thing this week was unfortunately seeing a Sparrowhawk take a juvenile House Sparrow from the lawn on Tuesday, I'm fattening up the Sparrows just for the Sparrowhawk to come down and kill, I do like raptors, I just wish they didn't kill and eat our songbirds.