Way Out West with Gav
a valley in Western Durham
Kestrel with two young, families of wheatear,
male Peregrine, spotted fly’s, Siskin’s inc singing male,
greenwoodpecker
dabchick with young on elevated locations: including a pair on a waterbody with no emergent waterside vegetation,
all the usual breeding waders,
c40 pr Black headed Gull with many young, tailed young swimming about looking very odd
Last but not least 11 Common Gull including up to 4 breeding pr. (apparently one of Durhams rarest breeding birds)
Meadow Pipits with 5 eggs found by Gav along a dyke back.
Went on a hike looking for Stewies Sunday evening Woodchat Shrike, but the farmer was already busy close to when we got there.
Spent a few hours looking, but another that frustratingly got away.
A Common Gull
what a beautiful bird it is in Summer
Long range digi shot of an incubating bird. ( a first for the both of us )
One of the few times when common is rare.
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