Bathtime again with the Starlings and a few others -- Added a few 1st May

Forgot about these - the White balance went haywire, so had to fiddle with camera later!!

You don't realise how huge these gulls are until they enter your space!!!:-)

Great captures Gaynor, good to see the young BB

They all do so love having a bath, I love watching them daring each other as to whos turn it is CHOL:):)

The Gulls are truly huge as you say when in ,what I term ,unnatural space. I am always amazed at how sleek the feathers from head and down the neck, always appearing, so smooth and pristine.

There is just something lovely about watching birds having a splish splash.....
Nice shots Gaynor..thanks for sharing ;-)

As you say you don't realise how big the gulls and corvids are until they land in the garden...I had 2 crows on the bird bath earlier..thankfully only for a drink...they then had a bath in the pond.

It appears there aren't enough fish in the sea !!   Thanks for your comments and just to add some with a better colour.  

This dish is for the Magpie and Corvids, supposedly!!!!   There isn't a lot of room for the Gull to fly down but where there's a will.....

A brilliant selection of photos Gaynor.

Sadly, our bird bath is being used as a dunking bowl, yes, d.u.n.k.i.n.g. bath for bread by our local crow(s)!

However, the local magpies have cottoned on, and as the crow dunks the bread, its left to soak the water while the crow flies off for more bread, before picking up the earlier bread to fly off to I guess the brood...

Like I said, the local magpies have cottoned on to this, so after a very short while, they come down and help themselves to the dunked bread!

Annoying because of the regular bird bath clearing out, but fascinating showing bird ingenuity.

I did try to set up a remote video, but its too far away from the house for the signal to reach and both trailcams are in use.

I would beat them to it Mike and soften your bread first of all :-)

Just caught the Herring Gull having his lunch - interrupted by  -  first one

another Jackdaw advances

Maybe he spotted me too

The rain is soaking the food so it needs eating up
!!

Blow this I'm off !!

Sorry for the blurring!!!  took me by surprise too :-)

gaynorsl said:

I would beat them to it Mike and soften your bread first of all :-)

I would, but the bread isn't from us, it is a neighbour down the road somewhere.

A return from a visit to a local reserve yesterday (bank hol Mon) and we had a full sized pizza in the bird bath, which is currently empty of water!