Hannah's first full day of her Langholm holiday has started by spending time looking at birds. First stop was the Kilngreen to feed the ducks. Some of the ducks in the photograph below are not the usual Mallards and they are much tamer and greedier that the others. I think Tootlepedal mentioned them on his blog a few weeks ago so maybe he will kindly identify them for me.
After we had fed the ducks we went to the Moorland Feeding Station on the Lower Tarras road where Dr. Cat Barlow was ringing birds with the help of 3 volunteers from Langholm Academy. In the above photograph Cat is releasing a small bird from the mist net.
This beautiful bird is a Tree Sparrow
Hannah inspects a Coal Tit
This was the best bird we caught. It is a Spotted Woodpecker and was very noisy and managed to bite Cat several times.
Hannah strokes a young Chaffinch
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These are good photos Gavin, especially the one with the bird.
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