Kingsbury Water Park.

Trip out to Warwickshire today to a very warm and muggy Kingsbury Water Park that was full of bird song, flowers and juvenile waterfowl.

Juvenile waterfowl were the order of the day with forty five babies seen today including eleven very cute Greylag Geese juveniles ranging from different age ranges which can't be a bad thing, it was also great to see juvenile Great Crested Grebe, Goslings and Coot chicks, sadly I didn't see any Ducklings but with many islands and hiding places at this location I dare say there were plenty about anyway.

Along the River Tame which runs adjacent to the park there were many Sedge Warblers singing amongst the copious amounts of riverside vegetation who hopefully were all raising young as well, there was easily double numbers of Sedge Warbler, impossible to put a figure on the numbers but like I said there were plenty of them singing.

Also along the river it was great to see Sand Martin, House Martin and Swallow of which the House Martin definitely had young because I saw them feeding some very hungry youngsters in one of the exact same nests they always use, also observed feeding young were House Sparrow, Blackbird and Starling.

I also spotted a splendid looking male Whitethroat along the river which always a great sight.

Birds seen today were Sedge Warbler, Whitehroat, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Wren, Robin, Starling, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Sand Martin, House Martin, Swallow, Common Tern, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Domestic Duck, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose as well as the following juvenile birds, Greylag Geese (11), Goslings (23), Great Crested Grebe (5) and Coot (6).

Since my last upload it's been a bit of a baby boom in the garden, what with the juvenile Robins I've already mentioned I've now got  juvenile House Sparrows the first of what's hopefully many more to follow and juvenile Starlings hopefully soon there will also be juvenile Blackbirds and Tits. I've observed female Blackbirds collecting wet mud for their nests and flying back and forth from the garden with worms etc, so it shouldn't be long before I have juvenile Blackbirds in the garden.

I've also got at least one pair of Swift flying above the house but there should obviously be many more to come, very soon.

Also in the back garden I've got plenty of Red Mason Bees taking up residence in my Insect Boxes, they were going in the one in big numbers but ignoring the other one that is slightly in the shade so I moved it close to the other one and they were in that one also within seconds of me placing it in it's new location. Red Mason Bees (Osmia rufa) are safe with children and pets and are hugely beneficial to your garden as they are excellent pollinators of fruit trees, raspberries, strawberries and vegetables and are fond of a wide range of flowers and tree blossom.