second year Juvenile.
Great Black-backed Gull.
Author: Andy Finnegan
Turnstone.
A picture post.
Garden birding.
Sunday afternoon bird watch. I spent a few hours with my brother at Mum’s house looking at the garden birds sometimes you do not have to go very far to get some good birding.
Goldfinch. Crab Apple tree.
Greenfinch. {male}.
Dunnock { fledgling }.
Blue Tit.
Great Tit.
Nuthatch
Saved the best for last. Mr & Mrs Bullfinch.
Magpie.
Yellow Hammer.
Yellow Hammer (male) – South Downs.
Hare today.
Gone tomorrow! We have the sun out this morning so up to the South Downs to see if the Hares are about. They did not let us down.
Into the woods.
Can you see me said the mating Toad’s deep in the Forest? – Camouflage at its best.
SM520.
Spitfire SM520 was built by Vickers Armstrong at their Castle Bromwich factory in 1944 as a single seat Mark H.F.IXe high level fighter and delivered to the RAF on 23 November of that year. With the war in Europe coming to an end she was placed in storage until 1948 when she was sold to the South African Air Force.
After a major flying incident, SM520 was scrapped but was saved and went into private ownership. Later she was converted to a two-seater.
By the sea.
Sometimes by the sea, the bird spots are not just coastal birds today, it was good to see both a Dartford Warbler and a Yellow Wagtail.
Turn the other way and a sea view shows a Pilot Launch heading out to meet an incoming freighter.
Growing fast,
A Picture Post. This years local Great Crested Grebe chicks are growing fast. They are eating vast numbers of small fish.
Continued Reflections from my World. 