St Aidan’s

 Just back from holiday so trying to catch up. If I can I will try to do a relatively local Blog in-dispersed with a holiday Blog. Anyway, at the end of last month my wife and I had a trip down to St Aidan’s just outside of Leeds. The birds were great and so was the weather although this time we unfortunately didn’t see Bittern (we did however hear a few) or Black-necked Grebe it was still a great day out though.

Loads of Sedge Warblers were singing in the reeds.

Reed Warbler.

Shoveler.

Common Tern with Little Ringed Plover.

Common Tern.

Gadwall.

Black-headed Gull with nesting material.

Great Crested Grebe displaying.

Graylag chick.

Blue-tailed Damselfly.

We stopped off at a pub on the way back home and this female Grey Wagtail was taking insects back to its young.

Cormorant

 The day after we went to Bempton Cliffs we went on a nostalgic trip to Scarborough. We walked everywhere remembering old times and reminiscing about our families and what we did when we went on holiday to Scarborough years ago. I took quite a few photos on my phone while we were walking around however the only wildlife related photos I took were of a Cormorant and a Gull.

Cormorant

Gull trying to eat a teabag.

Studley Royal

My wife and I decided to have another trip to Studley Royal to try and get to see the Red Deer rutting. We did see some of what I would call practice rutting by some of the males but not the real full-on thing that we were hoping for. I think most of the images speak for themselves so notmanywords. Once again, a couple of the images are a bit graphic so do not look if you are sensitive. 

Not something you see every day.

We saw this on the way back to the car.