Here again, the nesting swans at Arundel castle tulip festival. Several of the holes in the tower were occupied by jackdaws - some by pigeon. According to the dry-moat tour, the holes used to be where beams supported floors inside...but the beams rotted and the floors disappeared...leaving holes in the walls - hence birds roosted in the holes.
After the tulip fest we went to picnic lunch at Jubillee Gardens and found a wood pigeon watching our crumb-drops.
Canada geese and what might be teal or mutated mallard inhabited the grass fields where once roamed cattle.
I
could not get a good enough shot to tell - but i doubt they are
either on seeing the pictures on the computer...i can't see the teal
splodge of teal and surely a whole bunch of mallards wouldn't be
miscolored? Maybe pochards...? On a latter trip we discovered 5 miscolored mallards that may have been these birds....
Back home, and I tried to get a shot of a greenfinch in the feeder - as we have recently had a pair come to feed on the sunflower hearts. I have yet to get a good shot, but maybe you can at least see a bird....
Our next excursion was to Warnham nature reserve. In one of the ponds, we found a nest of 3-5 eggs - 3 definite, 4 probable, but 5 maybe.
Time to guess.....WHO lay these eggs?
Maybe the eggs belong to geese. Hopefully not mutated mallards. That sounds scary. 😃
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