A Scenic Route to the Playground

This morning - late morning - I took my two-year-old to the Adventure Playground whilst his sister was at her dance class. We took the scenic route, via the Pit Top to see if anything was knocking around - just a birder friend, who'd seen nothing of interest (but had heard a Water Rail on the Reedbed earlier in the week!). A couple of Skylark were on the Pit Tip Top with the greatly-diminished Meadow Pipit flock. A party of six or more Barn Swallow were feeding over the eastern edge, whilst a party of eleven House Martin were high over the western edge by the Pit Tip Plantation. At the Adventure Playground a Pied Wagtail flew over from the horse field, and I met Steve as he was walking past. We had a catch-up before heading off when the playground got busier. On the way back there was a Nuthatch tapping on the large dead tree at the Three Ponds and a single Coal Tit in the trees that border Warren Hill.