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It’s a bit noisy this shot but I enjoyed the look this Moor Hen is giving the feather behind it…and being a little short on top myself I could relate.
We’ve had the second batch of ducklings appear over the last week or so (you can see a whole barrel load here). So here’s one of the new batch – there is now an awful load of waterfowl on Doctors Pond now, and the Mallard Ducks, Canadian Geese and Moorhens
We went for a walf through the rather lovely Hockley Woods today. Just outside Southend, it’s always surprising where you can find Sites of Special Scientific Interest, which this is one of. There were butterflies galore and I was rather kicking myself that I had left the macro lens in
This cheeky young Goldfinch decided to forego the usual pleasures of the seeds that are available in all the feeders we have to enjoy some lovely fresh seeds from the herb robert growing in our garden wall. S/he had a lovely time gourging there way through the seeds available and
It’s no wonder this fledgling Starling was grumpy today. It was pouring with rain, there was no food left in the bird house and everyone had left him on his own!
This is the first time I’ve seen the Goldfinch this year. Debbie has seen it (and its fledgling) a number of times. Unfortunately they don’t go anywhere other than the feeder in the garden and when they have had their fill they leave the garden entirely, hence you get the
We had another new young visitor today when a fledgling Goldfinch arrived with one of its parent’s. We always enjoy the Goldfinch visits and I think this is the first time we have (knowingly) seen one of their fledglings.
After a few days of baking sunshine we came back down with a bump and loads of rain today. Unfortunately, we missed out of the forecast thunder storms, but at least the umidity has cleared and the temperature has dropped significantly, hopefully meaning we can have a good nights sleep
We’ve had very little fledgling action, except from the Starlings. Last year we had all sorts including Blue Tits, Sparrow and Greenfinch fledglings so far ths year, nothing, until today. The Sparrows visited with two of their fledglings today, and here’s one of them, looking quite cute on our garden
Another shot from up on the TV aerial, this time of a Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). S/he was singing away, I suspect requesting that I leave the garden immediately so she could dig into the bird seed we kindly provide. As soom as I had gone back in s/he was down
