Eighteenth of May
Back garden rose
You'll probably get a lot of these 'cause I like roses
Still on the nest
You'll probably get a lot of these 'cause I like grebes
Guess the flower
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'tis
a
raspberry
flower
Not a dandelion but
common hawkweed
This is the largest coot brood I've seen
Proud mama
Dad was between the kids and the footpath keeping folk at bay
Ribwort plantain
Swanlet
Tuesday the Nineteenth of May
Two tits on the feeder
Stroppy looking tit
Mummy with twelve (TWELVE!) chicks
On the nest
There's no way that I know of telling the gender of a great crested grebe: they take turns sitting on the eggs
All the family
Wednesday the Twentieth of May
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
(I did say that I like roses)
The pond
Extreme zoom to show that there's four eggs in the grebe's nest
Four's a lot for a grebe, at least as far as I know on the pond
Swan, swanlets and grebe
you can see the zoomage and croppage in the previous pic
The swan took a discrete path around the grebe's nest
Blue tit looking startled
There are at least three different families of tits being fed from here.
Thursday the Twenty First of May
More rose!
Friday the Twenty Second of May
Small mallard family
Still there
Dog rose
Mum on guard
