Monday 20 April 2020

On this day (April 20th)... Pied Flycatchers

Taken on April 20th 2016 in South Shropshire...

Always nice to catch up with Pied Flycatcher before the leaves start growing and given the conditions recently this was not a problem. Neither was the light - a gorgeous sunny Spring day!

It only took a minute or so to meet up with the first male....


Singing away on a low branch!


Followed by another one....






Covering all the angles!




In all, I counted 8 males singing!




The belting out his song,  Spring was in the air....


Just the one female seen....




The proud partner!


My favourite image of the day?


Two male Redstarts were seen, the Dipper (surrounded by aviarazzi) plus the usual residents: Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Mistle Thrush and several Raven over.