Interesting wildlife seen around Leigh - birds & glow worms

Ian Neill of the Glebe in Leigh reports:

"I spend rather a lot of time walking around our local fields, it is a great joy to see how in the past year the wild life seems to have prospered from the edges of the fields being left to nature.

This year I have not only seen Blackcaps, Yellowhammer, Swifts, Kestrel, and Grey Wagtail down by the river, but I wonder how many people realise we have also got two breeding pairs of Buzzards over near Mynthurst. There is also a Kestrel family around the Glebe area of Leigh, coming home one night I saw a Kestrel with its wings spread over some prey and saw that it had pounced on a Collard Dove this was on the green opposite the Plough in broad daylight with a lot of people around.  Also in the early morning if you go out before too many people are around, you may be lucky to see a green Wood pecker looking for his breakfast on the green."

Another parishioner recorded four glow worms on the lawn at night on 4 August.

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