What have you seen

Spent the morning at Burton Mere reserve. Well worth the visit.

3 Cattle Egrets quite close up, still showing some orange summer plummage, a belligerent moaning Water Rail, and a flighty Yellow Browed Warbler were the highlights.

Washing up this morning when a black redstart landed in the garden, just couldn’t get to the camera quick enough 

We were walking round Abborsbury Subtropical Gardens today and spotted these.

One is obvious,  but the other a bit unusual. The Fungi is, I believe, a variety of Hericium called Coral Tooth Fungus, unless anyone knows otherwise. It measured about 30 cm across.

That's a beauty of a Golden Pheasant Nellie.

There were a pair of them, but they were rather difficult to photo as they wouldn't pose nicely for me. Perhaps Flyte being there had something to do with that!!😁 They were beautifully coloured birds!!

Did you hear or see the Kookaburras Nellie? Glad you had a good walk around the gardens and saw Portland Bill too. (general chat thread)..sometimes they close that bit off.

Perhaps that was the reason we didn't get up there on our last visit, Brue, and no we didn't hear the Kookaburras this time.

Nothing quite so exotic here Nth but we have had the Green Woodpecker about 6 feet from the caravan and the site we are on has a lot of trees so plenty to see in bird species and at night just before dusk we are getting huge numbers of Starlings not sure where they are going down for the night.

I have been in communication with Head Gardener at Abbotsbury and he says that it is a Cauliflower Fungus ( Sparassis crispa), which grows and feeds on conifers and is edible when young !!

Did you spot the prototype 'highball' bouncing bomb while you were there? Its dimpled, like a golf ball, and was tested on Chesil lagoon