Skulking Juvenile Robin

We went to Fishers Green early again. This young robin was skulking with its parent, which was looking messy, in the bushes. I was pleased with how the eye recognition picked it up through the leaves. The moult is nearly at an end and the tweety birds are starting to show themselves.

I stood alone on the viewing platform overlooking Seventy Acres Lake. It was beautifully peaceful. Then I heard the whinnying of a little grebe and the dear little 'dabchick' swam into view. A lone immature gull progressed through the reflection of purple loosestrife. I spotted just one male banded demoiselle. A flock of fourteen barnacle geese took off from the lake. (Extras)

I talked birds with a man from the RSPB and local birders told me about the family of kingfishers. They had also seen a young cuckoo. The adult cuckoos are already back in Africa. The BTO have tagged one called Wingston Churchbill from Sussex and he has reached the Central African Republic.