Meriden Park, Solihull.

Nice early trip over to Solihull for a visit to Meriden Park whilst also taking in a walk along the adjacent Colebank Nature Reserve before it got too hot.

Highlight had to be seeing a Kingfisher for the first time in ages, as per usual it was a very brief but still wonderful sighting, still nice to see plenty of juvenile songbirds about especially an abundance of Tits.

Along Colebank Nature Reserve there are some great parts of land that are semi wildflower meadow where there are normally plenty of Musk Mallow and Field Scabious, even though I didn't see any today I took a slightly different route to usual but all the same there was plenty of Butterflies out and about feeding in the sunshine with all the following species seen in about an hour, Comma, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Green Veined White, Small White, Small Skipper as well as the daytime Moth, Five Spot Burnett, thank God for wildflower meadows !

Birds seen today were Buzzard, Kingfisher, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, House Sparrow, Chiffchaff, Robin, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Swift, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Moorhen, Coot, Mallard, Canada Goose, Domestic/Greylag hybrid Goose as well as the following juveniles, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Robin, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Heron, Moorhen and Coot.

Sadly though there were no Cygnets present even though the adult pair on the pool were sitting on eggs back in April, apparently they did have young but they 'disappeared', maybe the urban Fox pictured had something to do with it, as sad as that would be I'd still prefer that than 'human' intervention.