Busy...

Busy, busy...no time for blogging...some photos from the last few weeks...but not getting out much lately...Hawfinch invasion passing me by...can't win an argument at home because every time I get close they play the 'Shetland' joker...etc etc.

The Red Admiral is having a great year - I saw one at Wareham station this morning but this one on Ivy was taken last weekend at Middlebere

Kingfisher at Lodmoor

An obliging individual

Always brightens a dull day

A long-staying Lesser Yellowlegs at Lodmoor 

The second I have seen this year in Dorset....

...after another long staying bird at Lytchett last winter

Avocet are returning to Middlebere in numbers

A Middlebere Merlin put the waders to flight

A dashing male

Rare to get such a good view

Yellow-legged Gull also at Middlebere

Like the Merlin it was intimidating the waders