Saturday, 22 April 2017

FARMOOR AGAIN

Had a quick stopover here on my way home from Cambridge. On the causeway there were two dunlins and a common sandpiper, swallows and common terns flying overhead, the mallard was still caring for her growing brood of ducklings, also saw a wheatear and a couple of yellow wagtails. 
mallard and her young


dunlins
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