What have you seen

April, May and June are good months at Minsmere, good chance of seeing Beardies just outside the Island Hide.  Last year there was a Bittern nesting about 100 yards from the Island hide also have a chance of seeing otters from Island Mere.  I will probably take the van to Fishers Field in late September.  Got a lot on before then, get my bino's repaired at Halesworth and take my Canon DSLR to ACS at Watton to see if they can sort it out.

GL

Birds seen along the severn estuary at Slimbridge today included a Bar Tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper and couple of Bar Tailed Godwits with a fairly common bird that bears no resemblance to the spooky looking example in the third pic.

Finally sorted the focus system on the 5D mk4 

Met a couple from the other club in one of the Hides from Yorkshire who were stopping off on the way to see the Great Bustard re-introduced on Salisbury Plain

Took my son out for a sail on Loch Venachar in the Trossachs beautiful day enhanced by an osprey which had caught a fish and was moving in its talons into a more streamlined position. It passed by us about fifty feet away!

Impressive aren't they.

Great photos again BL.  Salisbury plain is a large area, did they say where you can view the Great Bustards?

OP

there is an organisation called The Great Bustard Group who then organise visits to the birds. It may be that they are on MOD land.

The group have beenimporting birds for a few years.

Thanks BM

Most welcome OP

The spooky looking bird in the previous post is actually a beautiful bird on the ground and especially in flight

An Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar, found in our garden today. he's a large chap, a good three inches when uncurled.

And in this warm humid weather some field mushrooms have grown well.

What a coincidence Brue, just yesterday I was gardening at our son's 'jungle' and came across one of the caterpillars.  I had no idea what it was and had to google when I got home.  

By the time I'd finished the border I'd seen about 6 of them .