New Hall Mill, Sutton Coldfield.

Nice trip out to Sutton Coldfield yesterday to visit New Hall Mill on their first open day of the year. New Hall Mill is a Grade 2 listed building and is one of only two water mills still surviving in the Birmingham area. The Mill and its meadow field are privately owned and managed by the New Hall Water Mill Preservation Trust.

Highlights of the day was observing two separate pairs of Treecreeeper feeding their young, one pair had young in a dead tree and the other was in a multi trunk tree, they didn't stop coming and going for food during the entirety of my visit. Other nests in the mill was a Grey Wagtail one located in an outhouse (as was the case last year) and a Great Tit nest in another outbuilding, as was the case with the Trrecreeopers they were feeding their young during the whole of my visit. Just outside the grounds in Newhall Valley Country Park it was nice to see Blue Tits feeding juveniles in the trees.

Birds seen today were Treecreeper, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Jay, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Grey Wagtail and Canada Goose and Mallard flying overhead.

Butterflies seen were Orange Tip and Small White.

In Friday it was brilliant to see the first of this years House Sparrow juveniles in the back garden, hopefully there's going to be plenty more to follow !