Shustoke Reservoir.

Best day of the year so far for a spot of birding what with the blue skies, no wind and that lesser seen round yellow thing in the sky making an appearance. There were plenty birds having a good sing song today with the main culprits being Blackcaps, Song Thrushes, a lone Mistle Thrush, Blackbirds and Chiffchaffs, it was worth the trip out just to hear all the wonderful bird songs. Also nice to see were the plants and flowers ready to literally Spring into life.

Other great sights today was seeing a lone Skylark which was of course first noticeable by it's beautiful song as it was on the wing, I also saw my first Swallow of the year, namely four of them, another amazing sight was seeing four Buzzard circling above one of the farmers fields, hopefully all the small birds were hiding in the bushes and trees. Unfortunately I flushed out 2 Green Woodpecker that were foraging adjacent to the path I was walking, still they were great to see all the same. Waterfowl wise there were just the usual birds about but there were 2 Great Crested Grebe and 4 Coot on the nest. There were also plenty of butterflies about with the most common seen today, the stunning 'Peacock'.

Birds seen were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (male), Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Green Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Buzzard, Skylark, Swallow, Pied Wagtail, Pheasant (cock), Cormorant, Lapwing, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, R---y Duck, Tufted Duck, Mallard and Canada Goose. 

Other animals seen were, Rabbit, Horse, Grey Squirrel and Sheep.

As you can see by the last photo I also found a clump of Buzzard feathers in one of the farmers fields, the longest being 12 inches in length, ironically it was the same field the 4 Buzzard were circling.