Butts pond full of water taken in glorious sunshine yesterday. Droughts in recent years have done the odonata in this natural spring filled pond no favours at all with several former inhabitants, like Blue-tailed Damselfly, not noted this year & other former breeders only making fleeting passing visits. Frog numbers were much diminished in the past couple of years and, no doubt, other pond life has also suffered.
An hour starring out produced southbound 12 Common Gull, 8 Black-headed Gull, 8 Kitts & 6 Shelduck with northbound 15 Common Scoter & 2 Red-throated Diver plus 2 Common Scoter sat on the sea. 118 Cormorant went out fishing but the melee that have been coming in from the north were not seen. What is presumably the same returning Great-spotted Woodpecker has paid another visit.
