The tiny, brown-and-white sand martin is a common summer visitor to the UK, nesting in colonies on rivers, lakes and flooded gravel pits. It returns to Africa in winter. Info from the Wildlife Trust to which I am a member, and my location today (Pitsford Water) is one of the Wildlife Trusts nature reserves.
This Cormorant is stood on a tree stump in the middle of a lake which once homed many trees. It's seen something in the water...mins later it fishes out a twig 😂
The male has golden hair and a yellow face, the female has a black face and a whiter coat.
They both have a very long tongue, a black and white striped abdomen, and a noisy buzz. Seen together feeding on a vitex tree - and occasionally getting into an argument - at @cowboycatranch
My neighbour is very elderly. Her son comes three times a week to kill everything that dares to try and live in her garden. This year so far he has sprayed weedkiller twice and today he arrived with a flame gun. He absolutely hates my side of the fence and constantly complains about "weeds". I think he is the weed. #flowers#wildlife#birds#bees#desert