On yet another day of fantasy reporting by the shooting
Nearly all of the other photos are from my garden where I tried without success to get a good House Martin photo, it will be easier when they start feeding the young at the nest.
Rob Thomas
House Martin, at least 12 seen together (ish)
My independent House Sparrow fledgling
The first Starling fledgling I've seen, but I knew they were being fed on Olive's giant Cotoneaster over the last two days
It did the decent thing and sat still for a few seconds
The adults are being worked hard and have found the sultanas
My wee mate has his own mate, I'm seeing this often and assume the Tree Sparrow fledgling and the House Sparrow are always the same one's being found in different places together. They look as if they've found their own reflections
Comical
One of the feisty adult Tree Sparrows chasing a House Sparrow off a feeder
Up until this photo I hadn't seen more than three fledglings together, they are looking upwards as a gull slightly spooked them
Back to sleep and perhaps not the best place for it. Not long after this a male Sparrowhawk flew over
The first time I've seen a female Yellowhammer for about a fortnight
Even the wary Chaffinch is taking chances to collect food
The Feral Pigeons are coming in just a bit too often so I'll have to put the old rabbit run over the seed the sparrows drop from the feeders
I could move this feeder to ensure there would be no shadows but I don't like feeders to be far from cover which makes the birds vulnerable to Sparrowhawks
I might have published this before but can't remember, it's one of my "rescued" photos
As is this Green-veined White Butterfly
Olive doesn't like the Woodlice despite me telling her they've been around since the Carboniferous Period 300 million years ago, not the same ones!
I took the photos while waiting for someone.......they were under a plant pot
Nobody seems to like Crows, probably as they were given a bad name by soldiers after ancient battles, and farmers who used to blame all sorts on them