Out and about last week

A lovely walk in the long awaited sun this morning. Grey wagtail and the Red Arrows !

Brown Hare

We have a new local site with Willow Tits ! 

Kestrel enjoying the blue skies

Stonechats 

Good to see that our local hooded crow is still around. Always distant and sometimes near impossible to find, but with a bit of patience and lots of time, we can usually locate it. 

Hooded Crow

Far more satisfaction in us walking mile after mile every day and seeing nothing, than milling with the crowds at a short eared owl or waxwing !  Sooner or later you will find a good bird that lifts your spirits and keeps you going until the next one. 

Self found Hooded Crow and Ravens in North Lincs !

Simon found this hooded crow just before Christmas and despite regular walks in this area, it wasn't re-found until Friday. Never close and certainly never settled, this is the closest we could get. Far better to find your own birds than stand with the crowds at waxwings ! 

And in the same area, a pair of ravens drifted over us yesterday. We see one regularly here but now there are two !  

A few birds from our Scotland trip

Common Sandpiper 

Crossbill 

Hooded Crows 

Meadow Pipit 

Rock Pipit 

Whinchat

More Bulgaria birds

Lots of bee eaters along the fence lines 

A few black-eared wheatears on the rocks 

Black Stork 

Black woodpecker damage. Was lucky to see and hear a pair of black woodpeckers

Blue Rock Thrush 

Corn Bunting - they were everywhere

Crag Martins 

Crested Lark 

Dipper 

Eastern Orphean Warbler 

Hooded Crows 

Hoopoe