Calke Abbey NT

On Thursday we arranged to meet our good friends Wendy & Tim at Calke Abbey National Trust in Derbyshire, which is about halfway between us. We had a great socially distanced few hours walking around the estate and having a good catch up.

Probably due to the catching up not much birding was done! With just 21 species being seen. We did add one to the year list for us though taking us to the dizzying heights of 121 so far.
So I'll start with a Butterfly, a Ringlet (at first I thought it was a Meadow Brown, but have just found a good Butterfly ID website, so have corrected this to a Ringlet)

 Juvenile Crow with parent,

 Mallard,

 Roe Deer,

 Chiffchaff,

 number 121, a female Mandarin Duck with three ducklings

 and a Red Admiral.

There weren't many photo opportunities as you can see, but today was all about having a nice time, in a lovely place with some good friends.