Sunday, 18 March 2012

a one legged gull, 40-odd trees and a carniverous jackdaw...

....a week in the life of the teenage twitcher.
To begin with we have finally planted all the trees in the the soggy corner of my field, all in all the amounted to over 40 trees. just one chitty chitty bang bang style shed left.
Secondly i boosted my year list with a trip to exotic Workington harbor; I added rock pipit, skylark, wheatear, black redstart and finally Stumpy the one legged Mediterranean gull. Wheatears heralded the start of spring for me, as did the skylarks rising skyward singing their hearts out!
Lastly, I was just about to begin this blog when my mum (happy mother's day, by the way!) said come an look at this: she claimed it was a "juvenile something-or-other" i corrected her saying it was a jackdaw, not particularly remarkable except that it was sat outside my back door eating a mouse!

a fungus photo to rival those taken by the Local Nerd

and another one

and another one

every dead animal has a use

kestrel

first wheatear of the spring migration
possibly the same wheaear, possibly another one

a skylark

on the rock to the left of the big pointy one in the centre of the picture should be my black redstart

a jackdaw

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