Maple Lodge Nature Reserve

An afternoon at the reserve in glorious sunshine provided the following species of note:-
Little Grebe (3 inc a single immature), Great-crested Grebe (1), Gadwall (71 plus duck with 8 ducklings), Common Pochard (4 broods of young), Tufted Duck (4 broods of young), Common Moorhen (2 pairs with new broods of young), Red Kite (3), Common Kingfisher (1), Green Woodpecker (adult with juvenile in plantation).   
Butterflies:-
Large White, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Large Skipper. 

                                             Green Woodpecker (juvenile) at the plantation.

                                                               Small Tortoiseshell.

                                                              Speckled Wood.