What have you seen

Thanks, RK, and a female I think as I can't see the black wing marking of the males.

Hoping to see some ospreys at Rutland later this week.

If you are interested there is a trout farm close by where they allow the Ospreys to feed.  People pay for slots of time so they can photo the birds fairly close up.

https://www.rivergwashtroutfarm.co.uk/horn-mill-osprey-hide/

Here's the link to their web site if your interested.

https://www.lrwt.org.uk/wildlife/rutland-ospreys

If you want a free view of the nest you can park up in Manton and walk back to the road bridge over the R Gwash at the head of Manton Bay.

Thanks for those links

CY, all 4 of this year's Osprey chicks at Rutland have made it so far, and they have now been ringed, so you might well see some if not all of them learning to fly.

Snipe everywhere on our local moors this morning, assume most of them are this year’s young.

A birding pal took this photo. He assured me the bird actually did have  2 legs!🙂

Thanks for the photo Pliers not seen any around here, did have a sparrowhawk just outside lounge window the other day not sure whether it is the same one we had here earlier in the year also had a young kestrel on the electric wires.

A lot of butterflies about new broods of swallowtail ,scarce swallowtail and great number of banded and woodland graylings.

Juvenile Sedge Warbler singing its little heart out at Thornham Harbour.  I knew it was a youngster as it didn't seem to have the full repertoire of song

Me, the squirrel and the bunting... no not a real bunting, the sort you hang up to cheer certain places. I put a short run up on a little corner seating hut and wondered why it kept falling down. I then spotted the squirrel, making a smart exit from the hut roof into the oak tree behind, knocking off the bunting as he leapt...now he's also had a nibble at it...no gratitude for all the nuts he takes each day!