Christine's walking & birds blog

The Tree bumblebee was back in the garden again this morning, feeding on the just-flowering Mahonia.

A report of a tree pipit in Swinley Forest today made me look again at, and considerably brighten, a photo I took yesterday on Wishmoor. A handful of chaffinches had flown into a pine, and among them was this bird.

I wondered at the time if it could be a tree pipit (especially as there were no meadow pipits around). But it was wary and I didn't see it again.