Friday, April 26, 2024

Cetti's Warblers



Had the best views of cetti's warblers this morning. Many pairs singing, always dashing about and very difficult to see. But we struck lucky with this male who let us see him, many times, but only for a nano second !
 

Nesting !!

 






Hope he knows the way back to the nest cos he can see sod all !




Watching this Great Tit collecting dog hair for the nest. Beak full after beak full ! 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Bearded Tits and Blackcaps

 



Bearded Tits





Blackcaps, it's that time of year again when we try and see every migrant bird in one day !

Beautiful Bullfinch

 







Stunning colours on this male bullfinch, feeding on willow. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

A Swallow and Sand Martin extravaganza and our first Swift of the year !

 


















One of those WOW morning walks. We got here just as the rain started so hoods went up and we thought we would continue with the walk, just incase. And then the swallows and sand martins started to come down, being forced down by the rain, hundreds and hundreds of them. It was spectacular !  We had the pleasure of them for around 10 minutes before the rain stopped and they went back up into the sky feeding. Scanning through them all we couldn't believe the morning could get any better but it gave us a single swift !  Wonderful xx

Yellow Wagtails

 



About 20 on our walk yesterday, stunning colour.  Keep checking the heads !

Willow Warbler

 






Plenty of flies, you can see them on this photo. Singing it's little heart out !