What have you seen

Good photos Brue sorry not sure what the mushrooms are and in the same theme we stayed at a site near Limoges last night for 1 night on our way to UK and met a french man on site getting the largest mushrooms we have seen a least as big as a dinner plate he did tell us the name and offer us one but we declined he had about 10 in the back of his van and said they were local to the area.

Good photo of the kingfisher greylag the owner of the site we are on at the moment has tried to get a photo of one as it keeps coming to their duck pond but to quick fer her.

Did see about 30 cattle egrets in a field plus 2 great egrets and 3 herons in a different field whilst travelling to the campsite through the Brenne to Obterre.

Continuing the fungi theme we came across a new one yesterday. A Birds Nest Mushroom. About as big, or small, as a thumbnail. Round with 3 "eggs" inside. This at Lackford Lakes where we were treated to a beautiful Kingfisher for quite a while and a very belligerent looking Green Woodpecker amongst others. Even saw a Cetti's Warbler as it went about its secretive life among the bottom of the sedge.

I thought you might like to meet a bird that has adopted our garden as home. For obvious reasons, he/she is referred to as Scrag End.

I assume this is a Blue Tit but no idea what has happened to it. It is very very active, great appetite and spends all day flitting around our garden,  which makes it very hard to get a decent photo, but it has had it rough. Really hope it survives.
Just managed to get a grab a couple of shots through the double glazing.
Any idea why it is so blue?

Great shots once again BL.  Guessing Scrag End is practising for Halloween

Thanks OP.

Scrag has been around for a few weeks and I was hoping that it was just a case of moulting and the feathers would change to normal as they grew, but I have never seen one like this before and it looks quite sore around the neck region.

Like you Blue I’ve never seen any similar, they always seem neat, tidy little birds

Try reposting it on the RSPB thread and see if you get a response.

Edit - Looks to me like a really late chick.

We see them like that, definitely a moult but it's getting a bit late and cold. We've had a Great Tit with a huge tick on it's body, don't know whether it has survived but it didn't seem to bother him or her.

Try putting in moulting blue tits on the web and you'll see similar. Hope yours will be ok.

Thanks for the info Brue. Ours looks a lot healthier than some of those.

After a month away on the QM2 to NY & Quebec, I was disappointed to not see a single whale, considering we traversed the Nantucket area, Grand Banks and the St Lawrence. A definite contrast to last years trip to Greenland where we saw loads. The only wildlife highlight was a quick glimpse of a chipmunk.