Loja Wildlife, Granada Province, Spain.: Humphreston Farm area, Albrighton, Shropshire.

Friday 1 May 2020

Humphreston Farm area, Albrighton, Shropshire.

Out for an hour or so around the fields near the village.

Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula).

I Started the day well with a few garden fly overs, the first was a pair of Ravens (Cuervo / Corvus corax), followed by a Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo) and best of all a Western Osprey (Águila Pescardora / Pandion haliaetus) which was flying over the village heading west.

Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula).

I later went for a walk over the A41 and up the lanes, on the stretch before the farm I heard and saw Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Sylvia atricailla), Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Goldfinch (Jilguero / Carduelis carduelis), Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Wren (Chochin / Troglodytes troglodytes), Yellowhammer (Escribano Cerillo / Emberiza citronella) as well as Green-veined White (Pieris napi), Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis), Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), Common Nettle (Urtica dioica), White Dead Nettle (Lamium album), Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris), Annual Mercury (Mercurialis annua) and Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis) which was moving around the White Dead Nettle plants.

Green-veined White (Pieris napi).

I turned down towards the Moat Project adding Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris), Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), Lords and Ladies (Arum maculatum), Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Pheasant (Faisán Vulgar / Phaisanus colchicus), Long-tailed Tit (Mito / Aegithalos caudatus), Jackdaw (Grajilla / Corvus monedula) and Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto).

Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis).

I followed the stream out across the fields seeing Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Carduelis chloris), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Red Campion (Silene dioica), Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) and across the stream on a fallow field Red Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum), Field Pansy (Viola arvensis), Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea), Common Field-speedwell (Veronica persica), Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus), Sun Spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia), Shepherds Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris), Common Storksbill (Erodium cicutarium), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Greylag Geese (Ansar Común / Anser anser) x3, Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Stock Dove (Paloma Zurita / Columba oenas), Common Starling (Estornino Pinto / Sturnus vulgaris) and on the far side of the field in the hedgerow a singing Common Whitethroat (Curruca Zarcera / Sylvia communis).

Field Pansy (Viola arvensis).

I walk along the lane and then turned back towards the farm on the far lane finding the Raven's again, Dunnock (Acentor Común / Prunella modularis), Common Magpie (Urraca / Pica pica), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), House Martin (Avión Común / Delichon urbica), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca), Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum), Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea), Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea), Germander Speedwell (Veronica chamaedrys) and on the bend before the farm a pair of Jay (Arrendajo / Garrulus glandarius).

Sun Spurge (Euphorbia helioscopia).

On my way back to the A41 I stopped in one of the gateways where I saw two European Brown Hares (Lepus europaeus), Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), Wild Raddish (Raphanus raphanistrum) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus).