An Hour on the Back Step

 Our Garden is full of life at the moment, young Sparrows and Starlings. The hardest working Blue Tit in the world is back and forth to the nest box 20 times an hour, where we can hear the youngsters inside! But the big news is the Swifts are back!!!! Although sadly they remained stubbornly high, hopefully they will be down to reclaim their box in the next few days, luckily I think the Sparrows have fledged their youngsters so the anticipated "box war" shouldn't occur!

Swift

Hopefully they will drop lower in the coming weeks!

Female Sparrow

Male Sparrow

Bubby Sparrow

Starling

Having a Bath!

The young Starlings 

Came out in the end!

Whilst scanning for Swifts, I picked up some very high Raptors, a fly over Red Kite and a couple of Buzzards

Buzzard, told you they were high

Red Kite

Blue Tit

Have Kids they said, it'll be fun they said!!!

A bit of Glamour in the garden, we have approximately 6 Goldfinch visiting!

The boss is still about,Mr White-eye!!!!

The garden is only small, but left wild with a bit of help, we must be like an oasis in a desert! Very enjoyable hour or so!! 

Wales 2026 Day 4 Part 2

 So leaving the Osprey Center behind, still buzzing from the Pine Marten encounter we headed to Bwlch Nant yr Arian for the Red Kite feeding. Despite a road closure we made it before the two o'clock feeding time! For some reason they have shut the cafe, but they still feed the Kites, it seems strange as every time we've been the Cafe has been packed!!

 It is obviously all about the Kites, but there was a male Goosander on the lake, just the one,last time there were five. More Gulls this time as well, some nice Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Hard to tell how many Kites there were, couple of hundred probably. I always think it's a bit dodge to concentrate so many Birds of Prey in a small area, do they really need it now they are established? It all feels a bit unnatural, but no denying the spectacle and it really gives a great photo opportunity!  A few and I use the term in it's loosest possible sense, of our pics below!

A few of the many Kites by Margie!

Goosander

Lesser Black-backed Gull

It was pretty chilly in the wind but still highly enjoyable and I will probably need physiotherapy to repair my back with all the twisting and turning!!!