Great visit to Shustoke Reservoir in North Warwickshire this morning even though I was supposed to be visiting Kingsbury Water Park but a diversion put paid to that because the diversion was right by the entrance to the reservoir so it was easier just to visit there.
Highlights of the day started off with the very first sighting of the day, namely that of a magnificent looking juvenile Song Thrush, a pair of Kestrel performing mid-air courtship, something which I've never witnessed before, a nesting Great Crested Grebe nesting on the fly-fishers pool (a rarity at this location), the returning Swallows, House Martins, Swifts and Sand Martins flying over the water in their hundreds, sightings of a Whitethroat and Nuthatch and the seeing Mallard Ducklings, all fifty eight of them ! Including a female with thirteen young ones.
Non birding wise the highlight was seeing a stoat chasing a rabbit, when I saw them they quickly disappeared into the undergrowth so whether the rabbit escaped the stoat will always remain a mystery.
Birds seen today were, Kestrel, Whitehroat, Chiffchaff, Nuthatch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Song Thrush, Jay, Blackbird, Collared Dove, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Pied Wagtail, Swallow, House Martin, Swift, Sand Martin, Cormorant, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Gadwall, Tufted Duck, Mallard and Canada Goose.
Also seen were the following butterflies, Orange Tip, Speckled Wood, Green-Veined White and Small White.
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