Kingsbury Water Park.

Up nice and early yet again, this time to sample the delights that Kingsbury Water Park in North Warwickshire had to offer.

Highlights of the day were seeing c.50 Starling tucking into a bumper crop of elderberries and rowan berries, fifty was a conservative estimate being as they were spread across many bushes and there were also plenty in amongst the bushes, there could easily been at least a hundred filling up on this exceptional crop of berries. There was also a nice flock of c.30 Long Tailed Tit which held many juveniles. It was also nice to see a Mistle Thrush and some Bullfinch for a change.

Birds seen today were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Starling, Mistle Thrush, Jay, House Martin, Swallow, Collared Dove, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Coot, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Canada Goose as well as the following juveniles Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit and Great Crested Grebe (4).

Not too many butterflies around toady apart from a few Peacock, Small White and Speckled Wood but too make up for that it was great to see hundreds of wasps feasting on some windfall pears, they were going absolutely crazy, it was a great sight to see.