#garden birds

Common whitethroat @ Snettisham RSPB Norfolk by Adam Swaine
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A summer visitor with a scratchy song. Around one million of these birds head to the UK each year to breed..like this one on the Norfolk Coast AONB

Sedge Warbler West Norfolk.. by Adam Swaine
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The sedge warbler is a small, quite plump, warbler with a striking broad creamy stripe above its eye and greyish brown legs. It is brown above with blackish streaks and creamy white underneath. It is a summer visitor, and winters in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert. Its song is a noisy, rambling warble compared to the more rhythmic song of the reed warbler

Sedge Warbler West Norfolk (riverbank) by Adam Swaine
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My focus on the sedge warbler is for two reasons. One is simply as it’s a new arrival from sub-Saharan Africa, a reminder of the miracle of migration. The second links, I think, with keen birdwatchers’ constant search for the new or different. Yes, they’re back – like seeing an old friend after many months of absence. I haven’t heard a sedge warbler for ages..Walking along the Nar Riverbank so tranquil and beautiful to hear and see in spring

A photobombing in three parts

Hey everyone! Sorry for being absent for so long. We’ve just moved house and it’s taken a while to start getting back on track. Pixel and Widget are doing great, I’ll hopefully be getting more pics and stuff of them soon.

In other news, I finally have a garden (an ACTUAL garden, not just the 2 metre square patch of gravel we had before) and its full of BIRDS! Including a robin who visits daily! I thought you’d all appreciate the photos I’ve been taking.

(I’ve started calling the robin Winter George, I was looking up how to befriend robins and stumbled across an article about Mackenzie Crook’s friendly robin with that name. It stuck immediately, because of course it did.)

Local Doves @ Hunstanton.. by Adam Swaine
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Beautiful park on the coast @ Hunstanton..

14thapril, the milk churn and the eggs inside, they’ve been busy laying more!

Robins nest in an old milk churn planter, first egg! Watering will be interesting now.

11th April first egg in a robins nest. The nest is hidden in the top of an old milk churn - creates an interesting watering problem for the climber planted there.

11th April first egg in a robins nest. The nest is hidden in the top of an old milk churn - creates an interesting watering problem for the climber planted there.

Starling invasion