Highlights of a walk around Gartmorn Dam this lunchtime included a couple of singing Skylarks (my first of the year), two pairs of great Crested Grebes, some great views of two Treecreepers and the largest Scarlet Elf Cups I have ever come across. I had a good look around the area where I had a brief glimpse of  a Green Woodpecker last time I visited the site. No birds were either seen or heard (only a drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker) but what appeard to be two nest cavities One above the other) in the same tree may have been the work of the former species.

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