17 Saturday Feb 2024
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bird courtship, birding, birdwatching, British birds, Mute swan, Spring is in the air, swan courtship
Spring is definitely in the air, according to these Mute swans. Though male swans can be quite brutal when competing for their chosen female, I saw none of that while watching these two, despite them being surrounded by a flock of other swans. The pair were gentle, their movements graceful and coordinated, and it was really rather lovely.
13 Wednesday Feb 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, insects, nature, spring, wildflowers
Today has been incredibly mild and Spring-like, and the warmer temperatures encouraged the birds to sit singing on tree tops, flowers to open (the flowers in this photo are Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum – the first I’ve seen open this year), and lapping up the pollen from those flowers was my first bee of 2019.
20 Sunday Jan 2019
Posted in 365DaysWildin2019, birds, nature
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birding, birdwatching, British birds, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Gadwall, Gadwalls mating, Spring is in the air
While I was feeling glad of my hat, scarf, gloves and woolly jumpers today, Mr and Mrs Gadwall were clearly thinking that Spring was in the air.
02 Monday Apr 2018
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birding, birdwatching, British birds, British ducks, ducks, male mallards fighting, Mallard, signs of spring, Spring is in the air, springtime
You can tell spring is in the air when the males start fighting over the females. These drake Mallards were really going at it. To the victor the spoils?
15 Thursday Mar 2018
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birding, birdwatching, British birds, European magpie, Magpie, nest building, nesting, nesting birds, Spring is in the air
Spring is definitely in the air here in south Wales. Wildflowers are wakening and blossom is bursting, migrating creatures are on the move and those that don’t migrate are thinking about procreation. For birds, that means nest building, and this Magpie obviously had some rather grandiose ideas about the size of nest it was going to construct. But had it bitten off more than it could chew?
Success!
earthstar 
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