Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Four greenfinch, wren, singing chaffinch, pheasant, magpie,crow
On canal : 5 mallard (2 pairs +1); pair Canada Geese,six BH gulls

Canal side -much evidence of rabbits
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Re: Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Pair of grey wagtails; kestrel
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Re: Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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A few new arrivals -chiffchaff (2); willow warbler; reed bunting; swallow
Buzzard(2), crow, magpie,jackdaw,chaffinch,house sparrow, goldfinch, wren, pheasant, canada goose Pr, mallard pr.

This path has a great range of habitat -mature trees including a magnificent old oak; overgrown hedges and scrub; marsh and reeds; a small stream and ditches plus, of course, the canal.
It would be be beneficial for biodiversity if this could be preserved -and not "tidied up" -when the land is developed for housing in the next few years (as planned).
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Re: Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Flock of 20+ woodpigeon in field, chiffchaff, song thrush (2), mistle thrush, greenfinch, chaffinch, goldfinch, blackbird,crow, magpie, jackdaw, 4 Canada geese, buzzard

Small copper, small white butterflies

Frog tadpoles in canal

Plants in flower -elder, hawthorn, bramble, common sorrel, foxglove, common spotted orchid, wild carrot, cow parsley, hogweed, germander speedwell, red clover, cuckoo flower, herb robert, meadow butttercup, red campion, ox eye daisy.

Party of about eight house martins high over Gt Knowley this morning.
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Re: Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Chiffchaff (2), mallard(2), moorhen, whitethroat,carrion crows (2), about 25 jackdaws in single flock, blackbird, greenfinch, magpie, swallow

Fine colony of cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort (Botany Bay carpark)

Volucella bombylans -a hoverfly that mimics a bumblebee -looks very convincing at first.
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Re: Footpath: Blackburn Rd -bridge 79 L&L canal-Botany Bay

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Birds -chiffchaff, reed bunting, buzzard, swallow, blackbird, carrion crow, woodpigeon, jackdaw, family of six mallard.

Insects-meadow brown -10+, small copper 2, common blue damselfly

Fish-large shoals of stickleback and roach at surface due to warmth of water
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