Great day for a visit to North Birmingham to visit Newhall Valley Country Park even though it did get a bit too warm near midday especially after four hours walking.
Great to see more juvenile birds today even though it was a bit disappointing not to see any Mallard Ducklings especially on the river where I normally see them at this time of the year but there was a lot of growth either side of the river so there may have been some there but I did see eight Canada Goose Goslings, four Moorhen chicks as well as juvenile Starling and Magpie.
Birds seen today were, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Chiffchaff, Robin, Dunnock, Wren, Starling, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Grey Wagtail, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Moorhen, Coot, Mallard and Canada Goose.
At this location there are two huge areas where the council don't cut the grass to let the wildflowers flourish, amongst the wildflowers seen today were, Meadow Buttercup, Ragged Robin, Red Campion and Oxeye Daisy.
I was expecting to see a large amount of butterflies today well I was completely wrong as I only saw two, a Speckled Wood and a Small White, the latter seen through the car window while exiting the car park.
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