Thursday, May 19, 2011

This year's crop


Took the zoom lens on the daily dog walk, and by a careful process of stalking (ie being deafened by the loud persistant calling) came across some young long-tailed tits. Elsewhere it was just the usual, the usual being a Cetti's Warbler singing from the overgrown field - warbler number 9 on the list for the field this year, and Lesser Whitethroat singing in Pishiobury Park.

No sign today of yesterday's calling Cuckoo.


1 comment:

laurence.d said...

Hello John,

A friend of mine lives in elmwood,the cuckoo has been waking him up at 3.30 am !.

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