Mandarins and Geese

 

We usually have mandarins infront of us here but afraid they got chased off this morning to make way for the dozens of baby geese that needed to be on the bank !

Catching up

Snakes-head Fritillary 

Fishing Cats !
Pixi and Magic taking it easy. As soon as there is a chair in the garden they claim them ! 

Lesser Black-back Gulls  (rung)

Proud parents with 8 little fluff balls x 

Quite a few wheatears at Toft Reservoir this morning 

and a fabulous tern day was had by all !!

Just chatting about the massive numbers of terns passing through today and bingo, in flew a flock of 20 Arctic with this one black tern. Very active and never close.

Called at Messingham NR on the way home from Toft and a further 20 Arctic flew through. 

A good day all round. 

Last week's bits and bobs

Little Egrets 

Curlew 

Stonechat 

Greylag Geese 

Tufted Duck

Don't be fooled by the blue sky......it's baltic out there !