Our Wetlands ( Morgan's Folly )  produces again

9th May 15           mid morning            mid section

O/cast & dull, chilly (feels 6°c)  9-11°c,  1011mb,  SSW16-W18mph

Another mundan morning until I entered the folly? sorry Wetlands. It pays to be careful when you hear the first utterings of a suspected garden warbler (listen & listen again) some blackcaps can fool you and this wasn't the full blown in ya face GW, but taking all that into account although I couldn't locate it i'm pretty sure it's a garden warbler, so i'm happy cause now there's 2 on the patch. So I walked on along the duck board to check for stock dove ( 6 ) and noticed a suspiciously coloured and shaped clump of something on the newly sown field, on closer inspection it turned to be a female wheatear, the 1st for this mid section for a couple of years. Angus gets them every year on Dunstall Park but here there quite rare.

Mallard	pr + 1 chk	Staffs & Worc  Meadow View, 5♂ 1♀ Wetlands,
Buzzard	1 over	Barleyfield
Moorhen	1	Wetlands
Stock Dove	6 feeding	Wetland Fields
House Martin	2 hawking over	Wetlands
Grey Wagtail	1♂	Smestow Bridge
Wren	14 singing	mid section
Dunnock	3 singing	mid section
Robin	11 singing	mid section
Wheatear	1♀	Wetland Fields
Blackbird	5 singing	mid section
Song Thrush	5 singing	mid section
Mistle Thrush	1	Wetland Fields
Whitethroat	2 singing	Barleyfield
Garden Warbler	2 singing	Wetlands & Barleyfield Annex
Blackcap	9 singing	mid section
Chiffchaff	8 singing	mid section
Long Tailed Tit	Family party	Wetlands
Chaffinch	4 singing	mid section
Greenfinch	1 singing	Barleyfield Annex
Goldfinch	1 singing	Meadow View
Bullfinch	1♀	Barleyfield Annex