Southfields Farm, Coleshill.

Great visit to Southfields Farm in Coleshill which yet again was bathed in sunshine replete with lush blues skies.

In all fairness it was very much the same as my last visit but that is by no means a bad thing.

There was the usual 'silly' amount of House Sparrow with them being literally everywhere especially around the farm itself and the outbuildings, in the fields themselves there were quite a few flocks of Goldfinch which of course included many juveniles among their numbers, Mistle Thrushes could be heard singing, Swifts again were above in huge numbers as were Skykark but obviously only a handful of those, in the fields and around the buildings there were also healthy amounts of both House Martin and Swallow, for some reason the last field I came to was 'Corvid city', where there were Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven and Magpie and they were all represented with good numbers of juveniles among them, that field may have been popular for them as it's the field the horses are always in.

There were most types of wildflower in all the fields including the meadows, there's actually too many too mention but varieties included were, Knapweed, Birds Foot Trefoil, Musk Mallow, Red Clover, Vetch, Oxeye Daisy, Lady's Bedstraw, Cranesbill, Meadowsweet, Cornflower, Wild Carrot, Red Campion and Common Poppy, there were also plenty of butterflies including Peacock, Small White, Ringlet and Meadow Brown.

Birds seen today were, Buzzard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, House Sparrow, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Skylark, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Swift, House Martin, Swallow, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Rook, Raven, Magpie, Moorhen and Coot.