What have you seen

RK - How did the cheeky blighter get in? Did he lift the cage up?

I think being a young one and small managed to get in easy as we have seen it getting out and the cage is well pegged into our stony ground.

A number of years ago on a club site I found a grey squirrel had got inside a hanging caged feeder and had eaten so many peanuts that it could not get out what a sight so got some heavy gloves on and managed to get it out with the help of site warden who was going pass, did not go on that feeder again.

If this comes again will try with a bigger camera for better photos.

Got to laugh sometimes with wildlife.

Walking on the Dunes backing Perranporth beach last week, we saw each day a huge flock of birds behaving just the way you see pictures of starlings doing. But they clearly weren'the starlings - slightly larger and with white belYstrad.  Thought they might be Knots but still not really sure.

Any suggestions?

A year or two back we had a grey squirrel that got into out squirrel proof seed feeder. Holiday dog was here at the time, managed to catch it by the tail as it exited but not hold it, it was stunned. OH put it under linen basket whilst he took dog indoors. Squirrel gone on his return but half its tail in the flower border. Dog adores giving squirrel a hard time but generally very gentle so no idea on tail damage, speed of exit combined with dog ambush?? Couldn't do anything for squirrel as no sign of it. Next day and many following weeks back in the garden eating seed from the ground, nicknamed it half tail. Personally I'd have given our garden a VERY wide berth, but the sqirrel was clearly confident it would be ok.

From your description, Moulesy, they could be Dunlin. They tend to wheel about in tight-knit groups when flying.

Lovely walk along Breydon Water from Burgh Castle towards Yarmouth.  Lots of waders, geese around but definite highlights were  6 x Snow Bunting and 4 x Water Pipits.

Water Pipit                                      Snow Bunting

Thanks CY. That was my other thought and when I looked at Google Images for Knots, Dunlin came up as well. It was an impressive sight and virtually the same time each morning. 

Good day spotting, yellow browned warbler, snow buntings, purple sandpipers, plenty of auks out at sea.

Don't know if this is unusual, but I spotted 19 Collar Doves and 2 Wood Pigeons all together on a house roof this morning, as I walked round our housing estate.

A badger in our garden last night...OH has just bought a "night" camera unfortunately all the instructions where in French...so that has left us in the dark too! (He's got to send it back as there was also a wrong piece of equipment with it but he had found a translation on the web.) It will be interesting to see who is visiting, the badgers dig up bits of lawn and like windfall fruit. There is a big sett near us and we've always had one or two passing through.