Well what a glorious weekend it was! The sun was out and so were the baby birds. We had the pleasure of viewing swallow fledglings through the visitor centre windows learning to fly and being fed by their parents. There was the occasional thud on the window where the chicks went slightly off course but no harm was done. We also had goldfinch chicks attempting to land on the bird feeder perches to get some seed along with their parents. To top it all off there were three lapwing chicks feeding on the mud right in front of the visitor centre all day. All in all a lovely weekend for weather and wildlife!
Here are a few photos I took over the weekend. At the top are two of the swallow chicks and one of them is obviously very hungry! You can actually see the head of the parent on the bottom of the photo. The middle picture shows the two goldfinch chicks on the branch with their parents feeding on the seed. At the bottom is one of the lapwing chicks still very fluffy.