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J2R May 2017 2:36pm, 9 May 2017 480 posts	Quote Pin J2R alpenrose, despite the yellow, they'll be green woodpeckers. Lots of yellow on them. You actually see them on the ground, eating ants, more often than you see them in trees.
Fragile Do Not Bend May 2017 3:11pm, 9 May 2017 1,756 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend I saw a pair of swallows out on my run today too. Also a pair of what I think were house martins, but hard to tell as they were silhouetted against the sky on a phone wire. They were also getting friendly with each other
J2R May 2017 3:12pm, 9 May 2017 481 posts	Quote Pin J2R First swifts of the year over the house today. Very late. Must be those northerly winds.
alpenrose May 2017 3:35pm, 9 May 2017 25,862 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose Thanks J2R, that's what I thought they were. I didn't see the swifts today but I went to check up on the swans and look what I found......
alpenrose May 2017 3:37pm, 9 May 2017 25,863 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose Then Mum got up...... 7 babies and another egg unhatched.
Watford Wobble May 2017 8:56pm, 9 May 2017 7,267 posts	Quote Pin Watford Wobble What we think were nesting / feeding skylarks. The young certainly 'clicked' a lot. Lovely photos Alpenrose.
Fragile Do Not Bend May 2017 10:42pm, 9 May 2017 1,757 posts	Quote Pin Fragile Do Not Bend Saw this on a path I'd not been down before, a riding hat left on a fence and something nested in it. I don't know if it's currently in use.
steve45 May 2017 9:01am, 10 May 2017 1,662 posts	Quote Pin steve45 I wondered briefly which country alpenrose might be in! Golden Oriole country?!..but undoubtedly Green Woods as J2R has said! Nice to see those pics alpenrose..the pair you mentioned some while ago?
AndrewS May 2017 9:15am, 10 May 2017 376 posts	Quote Pin AndrewS Saw my first swift of the year this morning; always a sign that summer is here at last. A goldfinch was getting 1 of his 5 a day on my plum tree which looks like it is going to bear a lot of fruit this year. There is a blackbird sitting atop a tree 2 doors down and singing his heart out. Such a beautiful morning and the air is full of birdsong
Surelynot May 2017 10:15am, 10 May 2017 1,408 posts	Quote Pin Surelynot Fragile - my mother in law had a hat hanging in a hut in the garden that was a regular nesting place for wrens

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