Had a trip to a hot, sticky and humid Babbs Mill this morning, where the spot of the day was seeing a timid Fox about 10 o'clock on the opposite side to the River Cole to which I was walking along as soon as I saw it, it had gone back into the overgrown vegetation, talking of which, the Himalayan Balsam here is really out of control, I thought it was bad at Pype Hayes but here it's stretches about twenty foot back from the riverbank and is twelve foot high, in the last picture that's with me standing there pointing the camera upwards, it has completely taken over any other vegetation along the river. The other sight of the day was seeing a Great Spotted Woodpecker juvenile making that loud noise they make atop a tree and while I was looking at it through the binoculars it nearly met an untimely end when it was nearly despatched by a Sparrowhawk sweeping in, the Woodpecker was fortunate to escape even though it did make a terrible noise when said Sparrowhawk nearly had it for breakfast, it was probably out hunting because there are a pair nesting at the other end of the lake, apparently with some no doubt hungry Sparrowhawk chicks in it. Another highlight was seeing my first Tufted Duck chicks of the year, nine of them, one being a family of four and the other being five chicks who according to a local have lost their mother due to unknown reasons but they seem to be coping fine all the same.
Birds spotted today were, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Song Thrush, Willow Warbler, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, House Martin, Swift, House Sparrow, Blackbird, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Coot, Domestic Goose, Canada Goose, Herring Gull as well as the following juvenile birds, Cygnet (7), Tufted Duck (9), Moorhen (1), Great Spotted Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Woodpigeon and Carrion Crow.
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