May 28th 2024

Red Kite drifted over the north end around 14-30 this afternoon. 

May 27th 2024

As many as seven Spotted Flycatcher's have been located around the lake , which constitutes as a site record as far as iam aware. Also today another Hobby and another Ring-necked Parakeet over the north end. That's three occasions this year so beginning to wonder if there is a nearby pair around. Also noted were 4 x Swift and a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers feeding young.

May 25th

There as actually been a fall of Spotted Flycatcher 's overnight as apparently we have five all at different locations , that's our 91st species so far this year .

Spotted Flycatcher photo's by Tracey Stubbs. 

May 24th

Very quiet around this morning only real bird of note was a single Common Tern fishing the lake. 

May 20th

Cuckoo and Red Kite today both new birds for the year.

May 17th 2024

Two Hobbies performed really well mid morning for over half a hour catching insects and displaying to each other . Unfortunately I only had my Butterfly and insect lens with me so had to work hard to get my images. Also present of note was a Tawny Owl being mobbed by finches and corvids , and four Common Whitethroat. 

Butterflies 🦋 

Brimstone 

Small Tortoiseshell 

Peacock

Orange-tip 

Green-veined White 

15th May 2024

Two Swift over the  dam end of the lake . Four  Whitethroat singing south end , also 8 x Garden Warbler  , 1 x Common Sandpiper,  1 x Oystercatcher and single drake Mandarin. Still no Spotted Flycatcher yet.

Butterflies 🦋 

Orange-tip 

Green-veined White 

Small Tortoiseshell 

Peacock

Comma

May 3rd 2024

It seems to be our best year ever for Garden Warbler , with at least 12 singing males . Obviously many more unaccounted for being such a large area. These 12 birds recorded at both north and south ends. So whatever birds are along both sides are unrecorded. 

May 2nd 2024

Hobby over north end today at 11-30 .

Butterflies 🦋 

Orange-tip  x 8

Peacock x 6

Green Veined White x 1 (first this year).

Still to Arrive

If anyone visits Rudyard in the next few days we are missing two of our spring migrants at present Spotted Flycatcher and Swift. Both are imminent so please drop me a text if you come across them . Or anything else you see for that matter.

Cheers Steve.

May 1st 2024

We must have had a fall of Garden Warber overnight as we have gone from just two yesterday , to six singing males at the north end and four at the south end. Also at the south end we have gone from a single Whitethroat yesterday , to three singing males this morning .  All other stuff is as past few days nothing changed. 

Very poor shot of one of the Garden Warblers. 

Good numbers of Treecreeper's around .

Butterflies 🦋 

5 x Orange-tip 

Orange-tip.