Christine's walking & birds blog

I went out for my walk mid-afternoon, hearing a willow warbler singing close by as I left the house and snapping it in the neighbour's rowan tree.


The drake pintail and his mallard companion were still present on the river - being followed at a little distance by a hopeful male mallard. The tide was still quite a way out and I could hear and see ringed plovers displaying among the gulls. A white winger was preening there; it could of course be the viking, but it looks more to me like an immature Iceland gull.


Three or four twite were feeding among the daisies at the point.


Despite blue skies and sunshine there was a brisk and irritating wind, which I turned into as I rounded the point. Then it was a boring stretch along the road until I reached home. (P.S. for yesterday - we saw our first peacock butterfly of the year.)