Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris)

This is a small, mainly brown bird, with a shiny black cap, dark 'bib' and pale belly. In the UK its identification is made tricky by the very similar appearance of our race of willow tit. They're so hard to identify that ornithologists didn't realise there were two species until 1897!

Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)

Puffin, puffin, puffin, puffin.

This one was taken way back in the early June. I said that it would be 48 days, here are some more!!!!!!

 Shall I jump....................................................

Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)

Notice what time it is???????

Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)

The yellow wagtail is a small, graceful, yellow and green bird, with a medium-length tail and slender black legs. It spends much time walking or running on the ground. As its name implies, it wags its tail from time to time.

It is a summer visitor, migrating to winter in Africa. It breeds in a variety of habitats in the UK, including arable farmland, wet pastures and upland hay meadows. Serious declines in breeding numbers accross all of these habitats place the yellow wagtail on the red list of birds of conservation concern. (RSPB)

Beautiful

an epiphany to me, lol.