Our next trip took us to Nyman's & environs. We spotted a field of sheep and lambs - and crows! There was a real city pigeon as well as the wooden white dove in the dove cote.
There was a very loud blackbird singing brightly away at us in a tree as we passed by.
It did not seem to care that we were only 1-2 meters distant, so must have been used to people passing regularly.
We have a couple in our garden at home. One sings out the back near my window in the early mornings and sometimes takes suet pellets from the sill, whilst the other inhabits the front yard.
We then encountered a pair of buzzards flying above us.
That brings us to the end of that excursion - as it was mostly woodland and flowers, not birds.
Our next trip was to Knepp Park rewilding reserve. We took the longest - 10 km - walk and my pictures of the bird of prey we spotted failed, but I took some of the stork in the nest that suceded.
You can see to the right of the pictures, 2 large nests - the top one of which has an adult standing guard.
That's a great picture of the blackbird, and I love that dove cote.
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