Maple Lodge Nature Reserve & Lynsters Gravel Pit/Farm

An afternoon visit in glorious sunshine produced the following species of interest;
Maple Lodge
Common Buzzard (1 over), Common Snipe (2 from rotunda hide), Green Sandpiper (1 from rotunda hide), Common Tern (1 over paddock briefly), Green Woodpecker (1), Blackcap (4 singing male), Chiffchaff (4 singing male), Willow Warbler (singing male), Robin (collecting moss).
Lynsters Gravel Pit
Wigeon (pair), Red-crested Pochard (pair).
Lynsters Farm
Stock Dove (6).
Butterflies;
Comma, Peacock, Small White, Common Blue.

                                          Common Snipe

                                          Green Sandpiper