A couple of pairs of Wheatear were also up on the Durham Moors as well as the usual Red Grouse and Meadow Pipit. Red Kites were hunting over the Moor and beetles were crawling over the walls.
Female Wheatear with some wool.
The same female.
Male Wheatear.
A different male.
Meadow Pipit were there in canny numbers.
Pied Wagtail.
Female Red Grouse.
Male Red Grouse.
I can’t quite make out the letters on the wing tags of
this Red Kite.
Red Kite.
Beetles.
The final part of our holiday to the Forest of Dean and I have combined two days into one Blog. The first day saw my wife and I visit Symonds Yat where I took loads of photos of the view on my phone but only a few with the camera and they consisted of a couple of distant Peregrines and a Buzzard. The second day started at New Fancy Viewpoint in the hope of seeing Peregrines and Goshawk we didn’t see either. Then it was on to NT Westbury Court Gardens and finally Soudley Ponds.
A distant Peregrine at Symonds Yat.
A second distant Peregrine.
A distant Buzzard.
Chiffchaff from New Fancy Viewpoint.
A couple of Crossbill from the same place.
Emperor Dragonfly from Westbury Court.
These fish at Westbury Court must be used to being
hand fed as they came to the surface the moment anyone walked by.
Bumblebee coming into land.
Aphids being
farmed by Ants for their honeydew.
Green Dock Beetle.
Red Kite above a café that we stopped at to have a
coffee.
Red-eyed Damselfly at Soudley Ponds.
Large Red Damselfly with bait.
Pond Skater also with bait.
If you don’t look too closely these images of a young
Pied Wagtail catching Damselflies look quite sharp.
Female Mandarin.
Male Mandarin.
Pied Wagtail.
Female Emperor laying eggs.
The same female only this time eating on the wing.
More from the Durham Dales last month.
Dipper, one of two that were on the burn.
Call of nature.
Common Sandpiper.
Not the best images of a Cuckoo you will see but the
best I could get.
Pied Wagtail catching flies.
Sand Martins trying to do the same.
Stonechat.
Mistle Thrush.
