We stayed the night in our motorhome along the entrance road to Colwick CP in the Trent Valley on the outskirts of Nottingham so took the opportunity to have a long late afternoon walk around the lagoons and woodland.
Best for me was a new sawfly Bramble Sawfly with birds being the other attraction. I once twitched a Bufflehead here many years ago but this time had to settle for Kingfisher, Egyptian Goose (not common away from East Anglia) and a huge gathering of c300 House Martins, c10 Sand Martins, c50 Swallows and c30 Swifts over the biggest lagoon. The resident Canada Geese had been busy with the largest congregation of goslings I think I've ever seen!
Balkan Spurge growing beside the lane was a species I've not come across before.
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