Chill wind. Dry. Sun.

Blackcap x3 singing
Pair Whitethroat
Chiffchaff singing
Kingfisher
Pied Wagtail far pool
Kestrel, male, hunting

2 Small Tortoiseshell
2 Orangetip

Leaf beetles
Pond Skaters on new ponds
Rove beetles, 5, on new boardwalk

House Martin
5 Swallows
Nuthatch calling
Chiffchaff singing
Song thrush singing
2 Stock dove
1 Whitethroat singing

1 Muntjac

1 Pond skater

Water has subsided, pools showing more clearly.

Pair Great Spotted woodpeckers chasing and calling
2 Ring necked parakeets overhead
Blackcap singing at far end
Treecreeper
Chiffchaff singing
1 male Kestrel
2 Carrion crows mobbing a buzzard
Pair Grey wagtails far end
Pair Gadwall
Pair Canada geese

Wolf spiders on boardwalk

2 Coot
1 Mallard
2 Blue tit
1 Great Tit singing
1 Chiffchaff
1 Red Kite

1 male Mandarin duck overhead
Wren
Pair Mistle Thrush
Coot

Mallard, two pairs
Great Spotted Woodpecker, male, drumming and calling
Grey Wagtail at far end
Teal, male
Stock dove
Kingfisher, very vocal from the river
Goldfinch

New ponds not visible due to flooding.

Two pairs Shoveller feeding in high water next to the Bird hide.

3 Egyptian geese flew over calling loudly.

1 Grey wagtail on path near Big Pond.

1 male Bullfinch calling and on flowering cherry.

3 Kingfishers chasing and calling noisily.

1 fox in field, marking territory in various places.

1 Great Spotted Woodpecker calling and drumming.

3 Redwing in bushes beyond the first bridge.

Breezy, very warm, no water in stream

Chiffchaff, singing
Blackcap, singing
Whitethroat
Mistle thrush with food
Little Egret flew over

2 Speckled Wood
Meadow Brown

2 Emperor dragonfly
Banded Demoiselle
Common Blue damselfly

Snipe fly on gate posts, sit head downwards

Breezy, muggy.
Butterflies-Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Small Skipper, Comma, Large White
Cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort
2 male Emperor dragonflies chasing