Lady Bradford's, Castle Bromwich.

Nice trip over to Castle Bromwich to visit Lady Bradford's which if you don't know the area is the strip of land adjacent to Castle Bromwich Hall and Gardens.

Even though it was a nice visit large parts of the land were completely unacceptable due to the vegetation growing out of control, this land is left completely unmanaged, the only intervention being by arsonists and litter droppers of which I picked up a substantial amount today, I was even congratulated by a local who walks past the litter every day ! Anyway the vegetation was mainly overgrown Hawthorn completely blocking the paths, it was even eight foot high in places. The upside though is that if I couldn't get to the land neither could anyone else thus leaving it to the birds, wildlife and plants, where my path was cut off I could see that the Teasel was in full flourish which is good news for the Finches.

In the Great Spotted Woodpecker nest in one of the photos you can see, at least two juveniles have fledged, which is good news, even if they are noisy little devils, talking of noisy juveniles there was also c.10 Jay making an almighty racket high up in the trees in a very wooded area, they were probably from one very large family or more likely a couple of families.

The juvenile frog pictured, was very lucky I didn't tread on it, needless to see it was put back safely on the floor and I then left the area where it/they were. 
 
Birds seen were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Robin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Jay, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie as well as the following juveniles, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jay, Blue Tit, Great Tit and Robin.

Butterflies seen today were Peacock, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood,Green Veined White, Small White, Small Skipper, there were also plenty of the day flying Moth, Small White Wave around, mainly being disturbed by the vegetation that I was disturbing.