Swifts and Starling parenthood

  
The latest visitors to my garden, photos had to be into the sun and when I sat there in the evening with the sun behind me they didn't show up. An interesting moth if the ID is correct, they arrived in cargo and are seen around the UK.

Two Starling videos, click the blue links

Starlings in my protected cage   it's an old rabbit run which was constructed for Olive when she was babysitting her daughters Rabbit, I noticed birds were using it. Any bird up to Blackbirds can comfortably go in and out, it stops feral pigeons eating everything

Starlings bathing, it's chaos

The first Starling juveniles turned up in my garden on 26/05/2026, 2 juveniles and 1 adult, by late afternoon there were over 30, with around 10 juveniles

My Swifts returned on 22/05/2026, the first sighting was when they flew at speed into the nest in my gable, which they've used for at least 4 years

I've seen as many as 13 House Martins at one time which is more than usual, so far only two nests can be seen with tentative looks at other gables where the remains of previous successful nests offer an opportunity

Still 4 Tree Sparrows coming most days

Both Blackbirds are feeding their brood but I don't know where they are

Feral Pigeon, less of them after I set up my anti-pigeon cage on my lawn, it lets birds up to Blackbirds get in and out comfortably, and I can move it around

Large Pale Masoner aka Wakely's Dowd Blastobasis lacticolella Moth, all of that from ObsIdentify and various websites. " Originally not a British species, this moth was accidentally introduced  with fruit and vegetables and appears to be established and expanding its range. It was first recorded in Kent in 1946 (as B. decolorella). In the Butterfly Conservation’s Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common."

Scottish Wood Ant, somewhere near Loch Insh!

Common Tern left out in error from my Webs records

Another two photos from Danger Point, Arbroath, not unusual to see a Kittiwake there

Herring Gull