Odds & Sods 2021

Soaking up the sun

Great photos everyone and how elegant those northern Pintail drakes look in the last photo, I think they have to be one of my most favourite ducks to see - the graceful "Audrey Hepburn" of dabblers ! so thanks for sharing.

Ahhhhh......all of you make me smile--thanks!

A quarrel of house sparrows!

And boy, with the commotion they have around them, a quarrel seems more than an apt term....

A short video taken using the camcorder

House Sparrows gathering and flittering as they come down to feed and back up to the bushes, before repating the cycle again, and again...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/peak-rambler/51685851712/

A rock pipit (? - not sure) sitting on seaweed:

One of the regular visiting crows to our garden finds itself a rotten apple hat had fallen from one of our apple trees....

We all know how intelligent crows are, this one looks at the green dish, sees hardly any water in and puts its foot on the edge to tilt it.

A wee little wren having a drink on a recent visit to Baddesley Clinton.

If you couldn't see it, here's another piccie

and away it goes....

Great excitement today on our drive to NT Ickworth for our daily dog walk. Into our second week of dog sitting for out daughter. I was lucky not to be driving this time and managed to snap this through the windscreen. 

Unfortunately disturbed the Buzzard feeding and surprised a car coming up behind us. Overhead there were two Red Kites, becoming more frequent visitors to our valley.

After our walk on the way home we saw 4 Buzzards, 3 Kestrels and another 3 Red Kites. 

I have been trying to grow (or at least not weed) plants bullfinches might like. Might be working ...

We are lucky that there are still some old fruit trees still in the grounds of our flats, the Bullfinch love them. We are very privileged to get up to four couple regularly.