RSBP Pulborough Brooks. Nightingales and Lapwing and Avocet chicks. 07.05.22

I travelled to Pulborough Brooks by train from Brighton (change at Barnham) to Pulborough Station, then I followed the Wild Art Trail Pulborough WildArt Trail | Discover Horsham District, across the brooks, to the reserve. This day was a group Gay Bidders Cub walk

Wild Art Trail

Pavement Botany; these wild flowers were growing at the side of the path from the station

Red Clover

Cow Parsley

Dandelion

A Rhingia genus Hoverfly on Alkanet

Buttercups

Ground Ivy

Female Orange-Tip on Garlic Mustard

Garlic Mustard

Speedwell

Tort and Damselfly - One of the Wild Art Trail objects

House Sparrow on telegraph wire

Butterflies - One of the Wild Art Trail objects

Jay - One of the Wild Art Trail objects

Walking across the brooks

Lapwing - One of the Wild Art Trail objects

Periwinkle

RSPB Pulborough Brooks

Robin

Whitethroat

Greater Celandine

Nightingale

Dunnock

Azure Damselfly emerging

The above Damsel Fly on my hat, with a beetle.

Blue Mint Beetle?

More Damselflies emerging

Campion

Speckled Wood

Redshank, from Jupp's view

Cattle and Canada Geese with their goslings

Rhingia Hoverfly on Garlic Mustard

Grey Heron

Buzzard

From the West Mead Hide

Lapwing chicks

Avocet on nest

Ringed Plover

Redshank

Another Lapwing Chick

Lapwing defending chick from Avocet

Avocet and Gadwall

Mallards

Fallow Deer

Peregrine Falcon

Buzzards

Long-Tailed Tit

Nightingale

Views of the brooks.