BIRDS

1st Cuckoo heard by Di Parsons – Heath & Reach, 19th April

Peregrine x2 at Stadium:MK (just signed up for the Dons)

3 Lapwing nests at Stony Stratford Nature Reserve

Wader passage in full swing at Manor Farm, Old Wolverton. In the past week, Avocets, Curlew, Dunlin, Black Tailed Godwit, Ringed Plovers and 6 Redshank.

Most warblers now back including Whitethroats, Sedge Warblers and Willow Warblers.

INSECTS

LEPIDOPTERA

Holly Blue, Speckled Wood and Orange Tip butterflies on wing.

COLEOPTERA

Great Diving beetles Dytiscus marginalis common in ponds at Linford Lakes.

HYMENOPTERA

Sawfly (Possibly Abia lonicerae)

ALL OTHER LIFE FORMS

MAMMALS

Roe Deer seen at Elfield Park and Shenley Wood (both 17th, Parks Trust staff)

Water Shrew found under tin – Linford Lakes (Martin K, 15th)

LEPIDOSAURIA

Grass Snakes – Tattenhoe