A couple of hours spent wandering around this morning. Mostly bright and sunny though a fait bit of cloud around and still pretty windy.
Straight along the cycleway starting off with plenty of LTT, Whitethroat, Dunnock, Chaffinch and Robin flitting about. Goldfinch and Linnet flying over the fields plus around a dozen Swallow.
Not a lot to see at Cloff Bridge when I arrived other than a Spotted Flycatcher in the same tree as my last visit. The hedges further on contained more Whitethroat and quite a few Tree Sparrow but nothing else.
Heading back down to Cloff Bridge two Mistle Thrush flew over as well as quite a few pigeons and Swallows plus a Kestrel.
The Willows by the bridge this time contianed a good few mroe birds - now four Spotted Flycatcher, the one on it's own and another three together which were moving back and forth between those trees and Faith Wood. also present were Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Blue Tit x2 and a Great Tit. Speckled Wood, Wall, Small Copper, Large White and Painted Lady plus Common Darter and two or three hawkers were below the trees. A Robin and a juvenile were by the bridge.
A few Willow Warbler and Whitethroat were in the bushes alongside Claxton Beck as I headed down the path. Just as I reached Cow Bridge Beck I came across several Migrant Hawker and Common Hawker and another lot of butterflies adding Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral and Common Blue.
Very little activity by the scrapes though eventually Common Hawker x3, Emerald Damselfly and several Common Darter. A Brown Hawker was over the lake in front of the hide. Common Blue, Small Copper, Painted Lady and Red Admiral were there as well.
Quite a sight on the lake were Canada Goose x35 and Mallard c.150 - I stopped counting at 100
Also present were Shoveler c.8. The Gadwall were still present along the other other usuals.
Nothing much at all seen between the lake heading back to the car park.