Mostly Grey (with a dash of Red)

I spent a morning watching a Grey Heron patiently fishing at the Ham Wall RSPB reserve, Somerset Levels.  It was catching tiddlers, but on a steady basis, so I reckon it was doing OK.

There were some distractions during the course of the morning:

Cormorant

Gadwall

"Where's the 'dash of Red'?", I hear you ask.

On a later day I caught the ferry from Sandbanks, Poole, to Brownsea Island, Dorset.

Herring Gull

Redshank

... and the dash?

Red Squirrel

Local haunts

Images this week are all from either the Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire, or Langford Lakes at Steeple Langford, Wiltshire.

Great Tit

Dandelion 'clock'

Mute Swan

Coot

Great Crested Grebe

Gadwall

'Heinz'

Hawk Conservancy

These are images taken on a visit to the Hawk Conservancy, Weyhill, Hampshire, last month.

Black Kite

Special relationship (Bald Eagle)

European Eagle Owl

Turkey Vulture

Great Grey Owl

African Tawny Eagle

Vulture

Common Buzzard (wild  –  over-flying the reserve)

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I haven't posted many images this week so there's space to add these extra three.

'Tangmere', a Light-Pacific Battle of Britain class locomotive steaming into Gillingham (Dorset) pulling an Atlantic Coast Express special.  It is heading for Exeter and then onward into Cornwall.

'Tangmere' leaving Gillingham for London Victoria 3 days later on its return journey.