Saturday, 18 March 2017

PAIRING UP

Plenty of birdsong in the garden this morning, notably this wren...
Also the usual mix of garden birds; blue tits, robins, dunnocks, goldfinches and green finches, nearly all in pairs.

After spending the morning staining my fence, I took a quick stroll round Stanton Park. Again, plenty of bird song, though not much variety at the feeders, mainly great tits. I didn;t see any nuthatches or marsh tits today. However, on the lake there was a pair of canada geese ( one with orange neck band) and the resident swans with last years cygnet. Amongst the mallards there was obviously some odd pairing with hybrid birds. 
canada geese

hybrid drake mallard?

hybrid female mallard?

last year's cygnet

coal tit preening

my first sighting of lambs,  although these are obviously several weeks old now, 



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