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Another from last autumn, a female Marsh Harrier
Marsh Harrier by tigerburnie, on Flickr

Brilliant, Tigerburnie...it's just as if you have never been away.

A Yellowhammer


and a Jenny Wren

It's pictures like those, that make me realize what beautiful birds we have in our country...

A pair of Grey Herons building a nest, if they are successful I shall return when there are chicks in the nest. This nest is on an island in a pond inside a park in the middle of a local town, so it won't be disturbed by me, I just hope the local hooligans leave them alone.

There is something magical about birds in variety, colour & adaptions; but mostly their eyes attract me! Tiger, every pic you take I see those 'knowing, been here before eyes'! How they got on this planet is really interesting as well - a bird from a reptile? Amazing!

I can not remember ever seeing a pair of herons, lots of singletons however. Obviously they do mate. I'll look out for nests along yhe canal where I have seen the singles.
It doesn't look a particularly sophisticated construction (but it must work for them).

Herons tend to nest together sometimes all in the same tree, referred to as Heronries.

I may not get out as much with the quarantine thing going on, so I'll show you a few older ones I took in the past few months, hope you like them.
A Kingfisher diving for its supper

and back on it's perch

I think stunning is the word i'm after.....

I think you will be fineTiger! I'm not sure where you get this fab pics from will count as social contact! I bet you hardly ever see anyone! Bloody brilliant as usual!

The Kingfishers are taken from a hide that will be busy this time of year, so I shall avoid that place for a bit, climbing into the Glens, or putting on my chest waders and standing in the middle of a river after Salmon, Trout or Sea Trout will keep me well isolated.

Fabulous, initially I wondered if the first was rotated from its proper orientation.
Tiger, I'm sure you are not brealing self-isolation by going out for a ealk and bird watching, any more than gardening is. While they can be sociable, mostly they are fairly solitary.

We are able to go for a drive or a walk to keep fit(and sane lol), we went to the local shore line today, about 3 miles away in the car as my wife can't walk that far, we then went to the cliff tops to watch the sea.

This is a local land mark known as Elephants rock as it resembles one with it's trunk in the water.

Another local land mark is this gravestone in a tiny derelict grave yard, if you closely it states the poor fellow died before he was born as the dates have been engraved wrongly.

Back to wildlife and loosely connected to gardening, some Celandines hiding from the wind