Look at that - Meadow Pippit with attitude!
Glorious, the Curlew over a Springtime meadow. Come on Curlews!
Watch out for ground nesting birds!
The Meadow Pippit looks so chic from underneath, and yet a very drab speckledy brown when still.
"Help - I'm stuck !" This little Meadow Pippit fledgling (a meadow "pipette" maybe..?!) was not really stuck, it was very busily flitting from cover to cover. Remarkably well camouflaged against the old dry stone walls, when still.
Meadow Pippit posing
Punk Pippit
Look at that unexpected flash of white banded with black on the tail. The otherwise rather drab, but well detailed, Meadow Pippit in flight.
Fledgling Meadow Pippit
sneaking off behind you
The elusive Reed Bunting in flight
Reed Bunting
Lapwing overhead
Lapwing persistently defending its territory
Magnificent Lapwing
stunning
A skyful of Fieldfares
Look at that crest
a pair of Curlew
Fieldfares
Curlew
What an extraordinary bill
Curlew looking for directions
Yep, its that way
Stonechat
Buzzard vs Crow on Chinley Churn
You don't want to know what he's eating...
