"Odds & Sods" (old version) - please add to the new thread 2020 instead !

I like your style, PB. It's always hard to separate the Chaff from the Tweet.

Blimey Hazy, that was a bit close!!! Glad you avoided the beetroot stain, not easy to get off your skin let alone your clothes.

I actually physically Laughed Out Loud, Tony... Nice one :o)

Thanks Nige :o)

Hazel, Glad to hear that you escaped the beet powder stain. If we had been at home we could have met you but we are in Alaska! No mammals other than dogs and people so far. Watch your space.. Report of birds after we arrive home later next week.

Thanks Ann, hope you are having a great visit to Alaska and look forward to hearing your report on return to UK. Was just thinking that forumates missed out on a meet up in Regents Park this year - although sad to report that there are now new signs up in all parks requesting that people not feed the birds :( I understand "some" of the reasons but seems to have taken all the pleasure out of park visits as it was also therapeutic to feed the smaller birds ! Didn't really enjoy London this time at all except for meeting family, it feels so very different …….but perhaps we are just getting old LOL

Hovering Hoggie, yes I turned a ground feed tray into a hover board, they love it but get rowdy at times.

That's the trouble with the Hoggies, Tony, they don't like to share. Maybe you should make a fleet of hover boards, to keep the peace?

Some shots of a Green Sandpiper taken back in Aug at Holme NR on N Norfolk coast.