A few from this week

 

Pied Wagtail

We saw our first swift of the year a couple of weeks ago, not back yet in numbers, just seeing one here and there. Remember the skies being full of them as a kid and hearing them scream around the houses. Those days are long gone, sadly. 

Meadow Pipit

Love to see baby lambs xx

Bearded Tit and Cetti's Warbler

 

Not a bad morning walk !

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 ! 

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. 

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