More May

Continuing with May's pics - still lockdown so …

Friday the Fifteenth of May

Starlings are beautiful when you really look at them

Scratching an itch

Can you tell what this is?

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Mother and child

High in a may tree a blackbird demands notice

There ARE cygnets under her

Would you bring kids into a nest like this?

Orange tip female

There's a fly in the ointment

I thought this wee beastie was a dunnock or a wren but was told, on twitter, that it was a robin!

This is definitely a fledgling sparrow.

"Top o' the world, Ma"

Feeding the kids

Fledgling on the gate

Saturday the Sixteenth of May

Back garden clematis

Was cherry blossom

Bee on dead nettle

She's still on the nest

(Actually it could be 'he' - they take turns on the eggs)

Thistle buds

Edit - not thistle but 'prickly oxtongue'

Prickly oxtongue at the side of Morse Lock

Back garden magpie thru the patio door

Sunday the seventeenth of May

Early morning : ten to six to twenty past seven

Back garden clematis

Dog rose

Checking the egg(s)



Both of 'em




Reflected sky

Tiny, really tiny, fly

In a line behind mummy




Rainbow over the early morning pond
(you can tell it's early morning 'cause that's almost due west)

Fly outside the window
(a tad overprocessed to bring out some detail)

Afternoon: twenty to three to half past

Back garden rose



Back garden clematis



All the family




Turtle
I was told that one of the turtles had been found dead



The grebe was watching neighbouring coots with some apparent anxiety





At last a clear shot of all nine cygnets.

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