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4th May 15        mid + part of south section       early morning

sunny & warm,  8-12°c,  1010mb,   SW 10mph

A trip with Ian from Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock was rewarded with a cuckoo calling from Tettenhall Ridge, we scanned the ridge from the old Meccano Br with no success. Cuckoo is much less than annual in the valley the last one as I recall was in May 2013. The garden warbler still singing and showing well, the coot was relocated south of Compton Rd and the grey wagtail still on the Smestow near Meccano Br.

Stock Dove	3	wetland Fields
Cuckoo	calls	Tettenhall Ridge
Great Spotted Woodpecker	1 drumming	S of Barleyfield
Grey Wagtail	1 singing	Smestow Bridge
Blackbird	6 singing	Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock,
Song Thrush	1 singing	Meadow View
Mistle Thrush	3 ( 1 singing)	Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock,
Whitethroat	4 singing	Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock,
Garden Warbler	1 singing	Barleyfield Annex
Blackcap	10 singing	Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock,
Chiffchaff	7 singing	Tettenhall Rd to Wightwick Mill Lock,
Long Tailed Tit	pr + 2	mid section
Chaffinch	1 singing	Station Paddock
Greenfinch	1 singing	Wightwick Mill Lock
Goldfinch	2	Meadow View