Little Gulls - distant but welcome

   
One year to the day since they arrived last year and the Little Gulls were at Monikie CP, with some youngsters on Denfind and a mix but mostly adults on the Island Pond, 14 birds in total. Nothing else in this post, and I won't commit to saying I won't have another post later if I find them closer on another day.

It was impossible to get photos of the 9 Little Gulls in the centre of the Island Pond at Monikie CP, so it's quirky photos and grainy ones

Showing the black underwing of the adult

2nd calendar year

2nd calendar year on Denfind

Denfind again with a Black-headed Gull

2nd calendar year on the Island Pond

Adult and 2nd calendar year Little Gulls

Little Gull 2nd calendar year and Black-headed Gull

The Last (Lockdown) Post

   
Hopefully the last garden batch for a while, I doubt I'll get a better Blackcap, and I won't spend any more time trying. I'm hoping I'll get a Whitethroat as I did last year, and one that stays for a day or two.

The Last Post, click here

Blackcap, still here on Monday and the first time in the open without twigs in the way

My trained Yellowhammers, they almost got the pose correct but for the twigs

This one is better trained

It's the time of year the Dunnocks are looking for a mate, actually the female looks for mates and the males won't know who fathered the young and they'll feed them

Same bird

I expect the Tree Sparrows will disappear soon, then hopefully bring their youngsters back as they've done in previous years

Blue Tit

House-hunting, that's happened before but they've only nested once

Chaffinch male, two pairs are coming every day, sometimes with the Greenfinches

The underrated House Sparrow (male)

I think this female Blackbird will nest in the garden

I wonder if this was the male Blackbird singing at 0530 this morning in an apple tree outside my bedroom window

Still just three Goldfinches and as yet the pair is tolerating the odd one