A very warm day brought a Hobby and Buzzard out over garden while this afternoon Draycote Water had a Common Tern, near adult Yellow-legged Gull and a female Pheasant with four young hiding in the long grass but giving her self away with a repeated soft call to young. We searched the country park for butterfly's, finding 3 Common Blue, 4 Comma and our first Small Copper of the year amongst the usual one's. The valley was quiet apart from the harvesters but did see a very close young Kestrel perched on post by Grandborough Fields Farm.
Our final count of moths from the Ryton Meadows trip was 754 of 100 species.

Black Arches Ryton Meadows by Steve Seal

Lobster Moth Ryton Meadows by Dennis Woodward
This evening Bullfich and Coal Tit briefly in garden and a Southern Hawker.
Richard
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