Kingsbury Water Park.

Nice trip out to Kingsbury Water Park where it started off cool with a nice breeze but eventually turned into blazing hot sunshine, ironically I was supposed to be going to Newhall Valley Country Park today but the traffic was horrendous going that way so I decided to head in the opposite direction instead.

Highlight of the day had to be seeing a Bar Headed Goose on the main lake, to be honest I didn't know what it was until I got home and looked it up, it is clearly a non native bird originating from Central Asia and as far as Iknow this was probably a captive bird that has somehow escaped, it was great to see it amongst the Greylag Goose however it managed to get there.

Yet again it was great to see juvenile birds, great in species and number, I must have seen eighty plus Canada Goose Goslings both on the lakes and the adjacent River Tame, also nice to see were juveniles ranging from Great Crested Grebe to Tits to Willow Warbler to Jackdaw to Black Headed Gull and especially pleasing was watching juvenile Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail and Goldfinch foraging on the waters edge all within a few feet of one another.

Birds seen today were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, House Sparrow, Robin, Starling, Blackbird, Reed Bunting, Willow Warbler, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Swift, House Martin, Swallow, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Collared Dove, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Common Tern, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Domestic Duck, Bar Headed Goose, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose as well as the following juveniles, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Reed Bunting, Willow Warbler, Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Jackdaw, Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull, Cygnet, Great Crested Grebe, Coot, Greylag Goose, Canada Goose and Mallard Ducklings.

Butterflies seen today were Comma, Small Tortoiseshell, Meadow Brown, Ringlet and Small White, in the photos you will also notice I saw Peacock Caterpillars of which numbered in the hundreds and were feeding on the mamy stinging nettles that adorn the banks of the River Tame, the stinging nettles further on down the river were also a popular foraging ground for the many House Sparrow that call the lakes and the nearby houses home.

Not a great photo but proof that I did indeed see a Bar Headed Goose today.