Long Nanny

 A visit to Long Nanny in Northumberland a few weeks ago to see an American Black Tern (a lifer for me). It put on a good show along with a canny supporting cast.

American Black Tern.

Arctic Tern.

Little Tern.

Sky Lark.

Meadow Pipit.

Painted Lady.

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.

Holidays day two part two

 While we at RSPB Otmoor we saw and heard quite a few Cuckoo, we were talking to someone who saw six together, I on the other hand only managed two. Unfortunately, with the lack of Dragonflies Hobby were in short supply we saw only one. Several different Warblers were seen flitting about but they were mostly heard.  Quite a few Little Egrets and a couple of Great White Egrets were seen around the reserve. As I said in my previous Blog a canny day out.

Cuckoo I was lucky enough to get two in the frame.

A distant Marsh Harrier.

A distant Hobby.

Great White Egret.

Little Egret.

Sedge Warbler in the reed beds.

A different Sedge Warbler singing from a bush.

Heron coming in to land.

Redshank.

Cormorants.

Common Tern having a scratch.

There were a couple of pairs of Tern on one of the ponds.

Yellowhammer from the garden of the cottage.

This was his favourite perch.

He sat there on a morning and on an afternoon.

This Jay kept coming to the feeders in the garden but would not land in the tree so this unfortunately is the only half decent image I got.

Jay flying away from the feeders.