Kingfisher and Early Purple Orchid

3rd June 15           morning                mid section

cloudy early,sunny later, 11-12°c, 1017-1022mb, W - NW 11

More song in better weather today and plenty of parents feeding young including blue tit,blackcap,long-tail tit and after a period of elusiveness a male whitethroat was seen taking food to a probable nest site.
   An electric blue flash dashing along the Smestow Brook is an unseasonal kingfisher. Both Wetland mallard broods still intact,the 9 family was by Meadow View and the female with 3 chicks is still at the Wetland site.
  I went searching a traditional early purple orchid site ( no i'm not telling where, they have been stolen before now ) and found an astonishing 24 plants in a small area, Never have I seen so many here before.

Mallard	2 broods         ♀+9 chks ( WL9) Meadow View,   ♀+3 chks Wetlands,
Buzzard	♂ + ♀ with gaps in both wings over BF, (is this the local ♀ or the wandering bird we saw nr station 4/4 & which Angus is seeing nr Dunstall Pk.
Moorhen	1	Wetlands
Swift	few	Barleyfield
Kingfisher	1 flew south along brook at  Smestow Bridge,
Great Spotted Woodpecker	1 flew west across Paddock,  prob same flew south over Meccano Br,
Wren	12 singing	mid section
Dunnock	2 singing	mid section
Robin	4 singing	mid section
Blackbird	5 singing	mid section
Song Thrush	4 singing	mid section
Whitethroat	♂ c/food	Graiseley Culvert
Garden Warbler	1 singing	Barleyfield Annex
Blackcap	9 (7 singing)	mid section
Chiffchaff	6 ( 5 singing)	mid section
Long Tailed Tit	12 juv (prob 2 family's)	Barleyfield Annex
Blue Tit	pr feeding 1 juv  Station Paddock,
Chaffinch	1 singing	The Paddock
Greenfinch	1 singing	Barleyfield Annex
Bullfinch	2	Barleyfield
Early Purple Orchid	24	mid section