Nice trip over to Solihull today to visit Meriden Park, a place which is a great little urban oasis where most people that live there don't even notice and certainly don't appreciate what with the arson and heavy littering that goes on at this location, I counted six trolleys in the River Cole in a short distance and the edges of the lake were in a disgusting state !
Anyway, the good things about today was seeing a juvenile Song Thrush, Mallard Duckling, Juvenile Coot and Canada Geese and plenty of juvenile Blue Tit, Great Tit and Long Tailed Tit. Also nice to see and hear were the usual large amounts of House Sparrow. especially in the bushes near the houses and foraging for insects in the nestles along the lakes edge and along the River Cole. Another great spot was seeing a pair of Little Egret in the River Cole which is something quite rare for a location like this.
Birds seen today were Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, House Sparrow, Wren, Starling, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Coot, Mallard, Domestic/Greylag Goose hybrid and Canada Goose as well as the following juveniles, Mallard Duckling (13), Coot (4), Canada Goose (3), Song Thrush, Blue Tit, Great Tit and Long Tailed Tit.
The last two pictures I've posted are for different reasons, the fourth photo is too illustrate how lovely and green it is along the River Cole and Colebank Nature Reserve something which will be very lucky if it remains that way for very long because of the heavy development and construction work going on around this area including a couple of hundred homes, this area is home to plenty of rabbits, I saw a lot today which is amazing when you consider it's a stones throw from a town centre, and is also home to many wildflowers which in turn attract daytime moths such as the Five Spot Burnet as well as many other moths and butterflies and obviously plenty of birds. The fifth photo is a dead Canada Goose which has apparently been dead in the water for over a week now and the council and ranger seem like they don't want to get the bird out of the water even though it's been reported to them, I bet if there was a camera crew on the way, an MP was visiting or it was up for it's green flag award again (that's a laugh !) then they'd be down like a shot to sort out the problem. The funny thing is that Solihull Council and it's residents think they are better than Birmingham yet all the above incidents show they are no better or worse in fact they are worse when you see how the council and some of the residents treat Solihull in general and the green spaces that they still have left.
The above is a photo of one of the many juvenile Dunnock visiting my garden at the moment. it's great to watch them foraging about in the back garden.
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