a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

I am not sure whether this was a flock of starlings or skylarks, they look too small for starlings but what else flocks in these numbers? Sk...

posing for posterity, this male chaffinch is displaying his Spring best against the gold euonymous

keeping very still on the principle that if I can't see you, you can't see me

same place, same snowdrop but it is so pretty it deserves another page.

after a refreshing dip there's nothing quite like a good shake of the feathers with one's mates. Three starlings at the bath house.

it has been a busy afternoon with flocks of starlings, wood pigeons, collared doves, sparrows, blue tits, great tits, dunnocks, chaffinches,...