Is Plastic Fantastic?

 I saw this unfortunate Cormorant a few days ago at Swanpool. The RSPB site says they  do not (apparently), deal with injured birds, which I could maybe understand if it was an act of nature but this is a man made problem. The RSPCA said they were aware of the situation and were monitoring it daily! What do they think is going to happen? certainly the fishing line/net is not going to just fall off. Maybe they are monitoring how long it takes it to starve to death. Myself and Peter from the Swanpool Cafe did try to approach it but it moved further away. I'm sure that one of the professional organisation, with their expertise could manage to rescue the poor thing. Hopefully, it has now been dealt with one way or another.

OUT and ABOUT

The Following were taken at 2 of my favourite places, Stithians Reservoir in

 Cornwall and Yarner Woods in Devon. The first 4 are from Yarner were

 we also had good views of Lesser-spotted Woodpecker.

WREN

NUTHATCH

NUTHATCH

BLUE TIT

WATER RAIL

GREAT-SPOTTED WOODPECKER

LONG-TAILED TIT

FALMOUTH AND MARAZION

THESE IMAGES WERE TAKEN AT FALMOUTH

 AND MARAZION DURING THE WEEK.

BLACK REDSTART

BUZZARD

BUZZARD

LITTLE EGRET

MED. GULL

RING-BILLED GULL

PURPLE  SANDPIPER 

SHAG on the ROCKS

TURNSTONE

STARLING

CATCHING UP.

This is a catch up from the last 2 weeks. 

We saw around 60 Common Cranes in Somerset in with

 the cows but they were at quite a distance.

The rest were taken around Cornwall.

COMMON CRANE

COMMON CRANE

BUZZARD

CHOUGH

CHOUGH

GOLDCREST

GREAT-SPOTTED WOODPECKER

GREY WAGTAIL

SPARROWHAWK

YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER

ROSE-COLOURED STARLING

I finally caught up with the very obliging juvenile Rose-coloured Starling at Lands End.

The last 2 pictures were all I could get of the Adult in Lizard Village 2 weeks ago.

The local Starlings don't seem very friendly!

Below; The adult Rose-coloured Starling in Lizard Village.

SNOW BUNTING

SNOW BUNTINGS AT KYNANCE COVE.

SPOONBILL

 SPOONBILL AT STITHIANS RESERVOIR.

SPOONBILL

SPOONBILL

SPOONBILL

SPOONBILL

BISSOE VALLEY

We spent a lovely couple of hours at Bissoe Valley on Sunday. 

This Golden-Ringed Dragonfly dropped into a pond and struggled desperately to get out

 but its wings were covered in algae. John managed to scoop it out with the tripod and

 after cleaning off what we could, we hung it out of site still flapping like mad. 

When we checked later, it had gone so we will never know if it 

managed to clean itself up and fly off or if it got eaten.

MIGRANT HAWKER

SOUTHERN HAWKER