Scozmo's Photery

Hi all, I’ve been out for a wander around the patch this morning, all pretty quiet but, a beautiful day is building. We’re lucky to have had a few days of rain, much of England and Wales are suffering drought conditions, something isn’t right is it?

Anyway, there are a couple of areas of activity I know of at the moment and the first was pretty quiet so I headed for my cam site where I’d been seeing a lot of activity in the recent past. As I got closer, I could see birds flitting around on the periphery of the Gorse / Broom shrubs so I approached slowly and made my way down to the camera, scanning around the area as I did.
It all went quiet, as you might expect so I started checking the camera, nothing on there then I noticed a young Stonechat up on the bushes. This is where I had great encounters with a Stonechat pair at the start of the year. I stood and watched for a while and noticed there were two, or three, maybe four young birds as well as a couple of others so, camera out and ready.

A young Stonechat was watching me from the Broom and Gorse above and it was joined by a Reed Bunting, there were young Reed Buntings hanging around in these bushes previously and the Stonechats are usually out on the reed beds.

I am beginning to believe that young birds are curious about us, until they learn otherwise, sadly.

A pleasant surprise was a Warbler, not sure yet which, that turned up to see what all the fuss was about 🙂

This is the same location that I got all my close-up shots of Stonechat at the beginning of the year, offspring???

Then yet another bird started working it’s way up through the bushes.

A young Whitethroat, I actually think there were two because two appeared on the next bush after I saw this one fly over there.

I think there were four Stonechat youngsters there, looking at the images, there are a few of different colouring and markings.

The warbler hung around for a good few minutes, flitting in and out of view.

From there on it was a matter of catching whichever bird decided to stay out in the open longest.

I was standing there for just under an hour, I missed glimpses of Linnet and Wren, as well as a probable Sparrowhawk which flew right overhead, into the Sun ….. and disappeared! Maybe it dived after prey?

However, there was one more bonus while I was there …

A tiny, beautiful Common Blue female butterfly, I don’t remember ever seeing one here before so a real bonus.

Just one of those random walks that turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

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