New blog

I now have a new blog that I have dedicated to my home village.

Wildlife of Hardmead Village.     hardmeadwildlife.blogspot.com

Barn Birds ???

A walk around the Little Linford Wood area today.
Very few butterflies around which was I was primarily looking for but did see some birds that were seemingly not in their correct habitat.

Tree Sparrows are rare enough these days but this colony choose to nest in an old derelict barn.

 

Another bird that seemed to like a barn was this Red-legged Partridge. Not nesting but using it for a lookout post.                                                                                                                   

 

 

Ragged Robin is one of my favourite flowers and there are plenty here

 

 

Mallorca Wildlife

Just a few pics of a few non-birdy things from the Mallorca trip.

Hermans Tortoise

Red-eared Terrapin

 

European Pond Turtle

 

Moorish Gecko

 

Iberian Green Flog

 

Iberian Speckled Wood

 

Clouded Yellow

 

Painted Lady

Locust

 

All the Wild Leek flower spikes were covered in these snails, a bizarre sight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Mallorca Birding. Part three

A selection of some of the smaller passerines...

Serin

 

 

female Sardinian Warbler

Spanish Yellow Wagtail

 

Nightingale

Woodchat Shrike

Stonechat

Bee-eater

Fan-tailed Warbler

Corn Bunting

 

 

Balearic Spotted Flycatcher

 

 

 

 

 

More Mallorca Birding. Part two

Waders seen on the trip included...



Black-winged Stilt



Stone Curlew



Little-ringed Plover



Kentish Plover



Kentish Plover chick (top centre)                                                                                                                                                                                   
 

Cormorant and Shag were the only seabirds observed on this trip....







Mediterranean race Shag
 

 

I saw a good variety of Raptors but they were usually not close enough to photograph....                      

 

Osprey (with fish)

Eleanora's Falcon

                      



More Mallorca Birding part one...

We were back in Mallorca for our 2 week holiday at the start of May. Here's a few pics from there.

First a few Herons...



Cattle Egret



Squacco Heron



Night Heron



Little Egret

Purple Heron



Great White Egret

a few waterbirds...


Purple Swamphen



Red-knobbed Coot



Red-crested Pochard



Marbled Duck

 

A few bits from Norfolk

I had a much more successful trip to Norfolk last week than my last visit in December.
With lots of good birds seen including Purple Sandpiper, Spoonbill, a smashing male Hen Harrier, several Lapland Buntings and half a dozen Snow Buntings.
 I also encountered lots of the more common coastal birds that you rarely get in Buckinghamshire including Fulmars, Red-breasted Mergansers, Guillemot and at least 50 Red-throated Divers on the sea at Cley.

one of the cheeky Turnstones at Sheringham

Purple Sandpiper at Sheringham

another Sheringham Turnstone (they follow you around)

Lapland Buntings at Blakeney

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