You know, I’m not feeling all that wild and wonderful at the moment. In two weeks, I saw only those three bird species – sparrow, dove...

Divo.

Back garden guests.

This post refers to the July heatwave. The Reserve was eerily quiet on the hottest day of July. The songbirds were silenced by the heat....

Starling on the trellis.

Off the nest and by the lakeside with three or four cygnets!

There's bird news as well - don't be put off by the Tarot and the... er... wand.

I guess this is for people who can't read maps.

The peace of the reservoir's northern shores.

Lilac at my Dad's - a shoot from mine, if I remember right.

Again, a row had fallen. Again, they were coming into leaf. Again, the sweet scent of lemon-sherbet.

I can kind of see the elephant's head, eye and trunk there...

I think it's a hoof fungus. Ian told me but I forgot.

There must be a story to this, but I can't work it out.

Fat pigeon made his escape as I sought to capture his image.

it's not all bad. I am not alone in leaving bird food out at Cottesbrooke. There was some there today when I arrived. The little birds...

But I have no photographic evidence so this will have to do.

We sat down to enjoy our lunch.

The remains of an unfortunate pigeon.

They spoke only to the snails.