A drive to Rainton Meadows for the Temminck’s Stint which is a lifer for me. And if that wasn’t enough a Wood Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover showed very well just outside the hide. All in all a canny morning out.
A lifer for me Temminck’s Stint.
Wood Sandpiper.
Little Ringed Plover with four eggs.
It was replaced on the nest by its mate and landed
right outside the hide.
Male Shoveler.
Male Shelduck.
A pair of Oystercatcher with four chicks.
My wife and I had a drive out again to Derwent Reservoir to see if there were any Osprey unfortunately, we didn’t see any. However, here are some of the things we did see.
Little Ringed Plover.
LRP in flight.
Oystercatcher coming in to land.
Courtship display.
The object of their desire.
Lapwing.
Common Sandpiper.
Buzzard.
Crows mobbing a Buzzard.
Can anyone identify this big bird.
…of the year for me.
My first Barn Owl of the year and it is standing on one leg dozing in the late afternoon sun.
In the hour and twenty minutes I stood and watched this Barn Owl the only movement it made was this slight movement of its head.
There were two Grasshopper Warblers in some scrubland singing then chasing each other. When they stopped they were not bothered about me so I was able to get some canny images.
Male Blackcap one of three seen.
Three Whitethroats were chasing each other around a small bit of scrub. When I got back to the same spot an hour and a half later there were none.
This Whitethroat has been ringed.
Male Brambling.
My first Common Sandpiper of the year.
Then there were two.
This Little Ringed Plover got too close to a Lapwing nest.
It was quickly seen off.
My first Green-veined White butterfly of the year.
And my first Large White.
