at least 50 Mallards including some drakes which have come out of eclipse, I reported a family a mallard with 9-11 ducklings some weeks ago......I did notice a mallard with full sized birds swimming very close as a family group....they appear to have more or less all survived
2 teal
1 grey heron
few meadow pipits
sparrowhawk harassing a crow
I thought I heard a little ringed plover but did not see one
3 pied wagtails
5 linnets
16 long tailed tits with 2 blue tits?
plenty of Canada geese 40 min on holden wood......when they joined the mallards on the res looked like martin mere with such good numbers
Ogden:-
meadow pipits on sides
2 kestrels
3 wrens in the ferns
Musbury:-
meadow pipits
Met Andy Swift, had a very long chat. He said there were 25 Mistle Thrush at Troy, 2 Little Grebes, a Wheatear.
He mentioned he heard a Lesser Whitethroat around Holden Wood back in April-May
