#100daysofnature - Day 92 - it amazes me how quickly these spring up after the rain we have had...it wasn't there the day before yesterday

Not as tasty as peking duck :p.

If what I have read is right, there are less that 7000 nesting pairs of these birds in the UK, and we're proud to have one of of those pairs :). They are incredibly timid though, and won't join the others when we put duck food out for the rest of the local residents.

Dunnock nest, now 4 chicks 11th may 2010

Taken at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in Norfolk, UK

Lovely to see this chiffchaff in our

garden in Suffolk

Dorset

5 spoonies on the Ythan today..

with the gulls doing a bit of mugging at times.

#Springwatch

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z2vn8/live on 6.4.14

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

sunset in doxey marshes

#springwatch

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z2vh9/live on 5.31.14

Cream spotted ladybird found on our laundry in our garden. Chideock, West Dorset.

Young starlings playing in the pond fountain

Deck formerly used to house the temporary studio for the BBC's "Springwatch" programme when it filmed at the reserve, now in the process of being converted into a viewing platform.

Whin Hill, Minsmere Nature Reserve, Suffolk

Character, and costume design and production for BBC Springwatch Garden Party 2007.

A Brimstone butterfly pretending he is a leaf

nesting in back garden

taken on an iPhone 4S

On April 27 a Jay decided to build a nest in my bedroom. Joy and drama followed... And: see next pic.

In Essex

Spring watch is a tv programme all about local wildlife and there flora and fuana with presenters chris packham and simon king and kate humble i was able to be at the springwatch event on southampton common and cadged the badge on the end of the lens and wanted to get the robin to stand next to it after several attemps and mealworms he finaly did it

badgers have poor eyesight and are only out at night so rely heavily on their other senses. Blindfolded the children had to feel, smell and hear their way around