Nice to see 'Ratty' the Water vole on 'SpringWatch Live' and iPlayer today, in Hannah Stitfalls interview with Steve Backshall... See comments.

A curlew doing a flyby in the Peak District. Been nice seeing them on Springwatch this year.

This is the younger of the 2 roebucks I see locally on my morning walks :)

Yorkshire Wolds

Springwatch

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Yorkshire Wolds

Nice to see this distant Darty flitting about the gorse at Kelling Heath, a first for me :)

Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)

Poppies Garden Centre - Scotland

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On the Isle of May.

The song thrush is a bird which has declinred in numbers in the UK and has become red listed.

The RSPB attributes this to - The decline in song thrush numbers has probably been caused by the loss and degradation of preferred feeding and nesting habitats.

Loss of hedgerows and wet ditches removed feeding and nesting sites, while increased land drainage and tillage are likely to have reduced the number of earthworms and other crucial invertebrate prey available to song thrushes on farmland.

Grazed permanent pasture (especially cow pastures) and woodland are important habitats with plenty of food for song thrushes. Both of these have been lost or degraded in many lowland areas.

Fortunately in Argyll the song thrush still thrives in good numbers.

This little beauty was happily foraging in the the hedgerow.

Song Thrush - Turdus Philomelos

Ganavan - Scotland

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Little Owl (Owlet)

RSPB Arne, Dorset.

Spring Watch - Starling chick

He was having a nut or two in Tentsmuir forest on Saturday

After many years of taking photo's of the Lesser Fuzzy Warbler' as I have come to fondly call these characters, seem to have managed to do away with the 'fuzzy'

There'll be a few more to come.

Please see Suffolk April 2017 album. www.flickr.com/photos/wendycoops224/albums/72157682818547896

SMC Pentax-M f1.7 50mm

Near Tayport this afternoon.

This one was near to the South Horn on Tuesday.

Explore July 11th 2021

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Turnstone - Arenaria Interpres

Scarborough South Bay

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Magical morning in a small, low tent, listening to the sounds of frogs and cuckoos in the forest. Photographing the hoopoe.

Greenfinch landing on the feeder at Calke Abbey

Watching Chris Packham on Springwatch last night getting all excited about seeing a Nightjar made me realise our lucky we were to see, not one but three Nightjars in Gambia just before covid hit. I felt that I just had to post a couple more of the many shots that I took of them.

For my friends that are not in the UK, Springwatch is a BBC nature TV program that is shown for three weeks every year. They also have Autumnwatch and Winterwatch.

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Spring Watch - Starling