I was at Welney, again, this morning.
As I noted in a blog this morning, everyone needs a place to call home. This swallow has found it. There were chicks in her nest and two others very nearby. How they will be ready to fly to Africa in eight weeks' time, I do not know:
I cannot resist adding this enlarged version of a lovely bird, who was clearly as much eye-balling me as I was her or him:
Much the same happened with this roe deer, firstly in context:
And now enlarged. She was definitely watching us in the hide. If the wind was in the other direction, she would have smelt us too, and probably fled, but we were lucky today:
This female mallard was enjoying the reeds:
There were reed warblers above her, but I failed to get a picture.
I did get this male marsh harrier, though:
As is obvious, by then the light was fading, even though it was only 1 pm. On the way back over the bridge over the drainage ditches and river to the centre for coffee (inevitably), it was clear rain was on the way:
A fun morning, though.
Two green sandpipers and snipe were the actual probable highlights, but they too escaped my lens.
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Lovely pictures, thank you. I’m glad you got out to enjoy nature.
Thanks
Everyone needs a place to call home.
Except Palestinians………. apparently.
That was one of my points
Lovely photos 🙂
And, yes, Andrew (Andy) Crow and Richard, to living in a civilised world where everyone has enough to eat and a roof over their heads! …So many of us have watched the news in horror as Gaza has been bombed and practically flattened for years – no homes… thousands of people killed and maimed… now no food. Starving to death.
Trump drives his buggy on his golf course in Scotland… the Scottish/British Tax payer pays for his security… he is probably the only person who could stop the starvation and let humanitarian aid in if he halted arming Israel until Netanyahu agreed to a cease fire and broker peace.
Looks lovely. I must confess I am in 7th heaven when the swallows arrive each year. Suddenly I am sans insect bites. nesting boxes around my garden, on the list for next year. A great investment. Thanks for sharing Richard. Great link to things inhuman from you and Rose.
Thanks.
I will be out again today.
It’s a grey start this morning but every day is different in nature. That’s why it is worth watching at one place regularly.
Migrant birds. They come over here. No visas. Settle in their own segregated communities. Make no effort to integrate. Don’t even learn the language. They live in overcrowded and precarious accommodation. Probably verminous too. Their many children overwhelm our system. Putting pressure on the native population of insects. And taking the food out of the mouths of our native birds and our own children. Send them back!
(That was an effort at satire, in case it is it not clear – and given I feel the need to explain, I must be worried it is not clear enough. They are of course very welcome visitors, and here today and gone all too soon tomorrow.)
🙂
I was amused
Andrew and Richard, yes, the cheek of these migratory birds, annually coming here and not paying any tax on the resources they use in Britain (umm… makes me think of non-dom humans)… but it’s different in Southern Europe as there, thousands of migratory birds are hunted and killed 🙁
Agreed
I like the photographs and the idea that despite all the work you do, and life being ‘full of care’, you always make the time to ‘stop and stare’.
Thanks. The air was full of swallows when we bought our old farmhouse on the welsh border 48 yrs ago. Over the years they have disappeared despite our attempts to help. 19 years ago I sailed our veteran ketch around the baltic and the air was full of swallows. I wanted to be amongst them in my remaining years and am back for a 4 summers cruise, currently 15M on land of Stockholm. The swallows are rare. Except in one island Uto in the Aland archipelago. Also, there are almost no mosquitoes. I asked my host here about it and he said summer was very late, which I knew, freezing on board in Helsinki well into June.
What are we doing to this planet – our only home? Our economic theory is not fit for purpose and our political systems don’t work either.
Thank you for what you are doing. I think nothing will change until the knowing silent majority take up arms against the greedy elite feathering their own nests.
Penlena
‘Follow the Swallow’ baltic 4 summers cruise
Thanks
Go well
Love the deer!
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