Kingsbury Water Park.

Today turned out to be the prefect day to visit Kingsbury Water Park in North Warwickshire where the weather in my opinion was absolutely ideal.

You couldn't go anywhere in the park today without hearing songbirds singing and what's not too like about that ? Personal favourites were, Willow Warbler, Whitehroat, Blackcap, Dunnock and a flock of c.20 Long Tailed Tit, just a shame most people don't appreciate song birds singing for what it is, one of nature's most wonderful gifts to us.

The Willow Warblers singing sounded like they were singing for the bird singing Olympics, they were giving it their all without stopping for breath, Whitethroat and Blackcap as you know have a wonderful song, the Dunnock's song is very underrated and even though Long Tailed Tits haven't got the best song the sheer volume of the noise had to be appreciated.

I don't normally go this far into a blog at this time of the year without mentioning juveniles so here goes, there were six Mallard Ducklings and ten juvenile Coot seen with one Mute Swan, three Canada Goose and one Coot observed on the nest.

Also great to see was the return of House Martin's as well as Little Egret and Common Tern, sadly the island where the Little Egret used to be located has been hacked down to almost a bare scrape so much so that I didn't see a single Little Egret on said island and the only one I saw was on the adjacent River Tame, I don't know why but I always love to see Common Tern maybe it's because they are great to watch when in flight.

Birds seen today were, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Starling, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, House Martin, Cormorant, Common Tern, Little Egret, Mute Swan, Great Crested Grebe, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, Greylag Goose and Canada Goose.

The only downside was being told by a local that I'd just missed a sighting of a Muntjac Deer by mere seconds but on the positive side at least they are present at this location.

Finally in a location very close to the park but not in the park it was my great pleasure to observe Starlings taking food to their young in a great accidental site for nesting birds, they have done so there for many years, I shan't point out the location just in case I alert people who might not be so welcoming as I would be.