Last birding trip out for the week today which was to Sutton Park in North Birmingham where it was nice for most of the morning and only went overcast towards the end of my visit.
Apart from this being a great park to visit the main reason for today's trip was to see if the Mute Swan's have had their Cygnets and they have, talking to a local four hatched and as you can see, thankfully there are still four. It was quite a good day for seeing juvenile birds with following spotted, Whitethroat, Dunnock, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Cygnets (4) and at least four Coot, it was hard to tell exactly where there because they were on the nest on the mother and all I could see was four heads popping out from underneath her. Especially nice to see were the Whitethroat, Coal Tit and Dunnock juveniles but it's obviously a pleasure to see any baby birds. Also nice to see was a Blue Tit nest in the hole of a tree and a Great Tit nest in another, with the parents in both nests flying in about every thirty seconds with food.
Another highlight was seeing a pair of Skylark catching insects in the air and taking them to the same spot on the heathland. obviously feeding their young, thankfully the nest was in a location where most people don't go.
It's also nice to see the free roaming cows at this site, I've never seen so many as today where I saw at least fifty.
The only downside of the day was seeing the usual large amounts of arson including large swathes of gorse and grassland and the disgraceful act of vandalism to the pine tree in the last picture.
Birds seen today were, Buzzard, Skylark, Whitehroat, Treecreeper, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Swift, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Jay, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Mute Swan, Coot, Tufted Duck and Mallard.
When I got home there sadly was also a deceased juvenile Starling in the back garden, suffice to say it's now had a decent send off and is now buried in the garden.
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