Sutton Park.

Great to actually get out and do some birding for the first time in just over two months now the restrictions have been slightly relaxed.

After seeing a recent photo of the cows that are resident here I was hoping to see them today, so I pulled into the Banners Gate entrance and I didn't even need to get out of the car and I could see them, there were over in twenty in total, nice to cows enjoying freedom rather than being imprisoned on some crappy farm.

Bird wise, highlights were hearing a Cuckoo, in fact you could hear it all around my walk this morning, on the more open areas there were plenty of Skylark to be seen and heard whereas on the moorland there were plenty of Meadow Pipit to be seen and heard, not bad being as one is a red listed species and the other is on the amber list, also great to see were Great Spotted Woodpecker and Song Thrush, sadly there were no juvenile waterfowl on the pool even though I could see four Coot on the nest.

Birds recorded today were, Cuckoo, Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Whitethroat, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch,  Chiffchaff, Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Starling, Woodpigeon, Jackdaw, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Grey Heron, Mute Swan, Coot, Canada Goose, Tufted Duck and Mallard.

Hopefully I'll do another report from Sutton Park next week but this time starting off from another entrance.