That should do it for the hit counter. Trip out to local reservoir… first dedicated field sketching trip for a while. Resolving to draw whatever common species crossed my path. So much easier to see things when they are singing. Wrens, robins, chaffinches, great tits all singing away with the noise of battling coots in the background. I stuck mostly to sketching songbirds as a continuation of my garden studies with the idea of possibly making a series of monoprints directly stemming from recent observation.
Long-tailed tits have been regular visitors to the bird table and so I was primed for seeing them in a bigger setting… First time I’ve ever seen one of their nests under construction…looked like a third or so built, all of moss and lichen from what I could tell… deep in a blackthorn thicket.
It was warm or even hot in the sun and the birds were flitting up to catch small insects that seemed to be everywhere.