An early morning visit to Cosmeston produced 42 species in all. Sightings included a Green Woodpecker feeding in the car park, Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming briefly in the adjacent Golf Club wood and another flying over the West Lake. A Lesser Whitethroat was singing from scrub along the fenceline running up the centre of the west paddock. It’s been there for over a week now and is at a point roughly level with the dragonfly pond. A pair of Canada Geese has 6 goslings and there was a Common Sandpiper at the south end of the West Lake. Earlier this week a crow was feeding 2 young at the south end of Cogan Wood. There are 3 pairs of Great Crested Grebes present but currently they don’t seem to be nesting, having abandoned at least 2 nests. The regular presence of Grey Heron (3 this morning around the margins of the West Lake) probably isn’t helping.