Bits and pieces

[Dave Beevers]

Garden---occasional visits from juv Nuthatch and GS Woodpecker.
In April a Wood Pigeon built a very flimsy nest in hawthorn. after sitting for a couple of weeks the nest totally collapsed. After a couple of weeks it tried again and was just as hopeless. It has now rebuilt again and has been sitting for the last week but again there is hardly any substance to the nest. i don't hold out much hope for success.
18/6 1 Stock Dove
24/6 A Willow Warbler spent an hour repeatedly sunning itself on the fence and then moving a short distance into a tree and preening. This is not a first for my garden but very unusual. Also 1 Meadow Brown.
26/6 1 Common Blue butterfly.

16/6 Croston Moss. 5 Banded Demoiselle,4 Peacock caterpillars, c15 Painted Lady,1 Corn Bunting.

Buckshaw 1 Whitethroat, 6 Six spot Burnet Moths, 2 Oystercatcher 1Small Copper

Fields between Runshaw Lane and Chapel Brook post breeding flocke of 14 Lapwing and family of 5 Mistle Thrush

R Yarrow Euxton/Shaw Green 2 Sand Martin

Millenium Green 1 Jay, 1 Broad bodied Chaser