Our bird expert neighbour popped over this morning to report his sighting of a small flock of yellow wagtails companion feeding amongst the sheep. The sheep stir up insects from the grass which the yellow wagtails snaffle to feed themselves up for their onward journey to Africa. There is one immediately to the left of this ewes head.
The swallows are also feeding up and down the ridge and furrow grass field, flying at about knee height most of the time. The pair that nest in the garage have had a remarkable year, they are now on their third brood having raised six from their first and four from their second sittings. They are very fast and thus quite tricky to photograph but there is one centre picture amongst the sheep below...
The numbers hunting the insects coming off the field edge trees were incredible, there are nine in this picture and there must have been another 40 plus over my head at the time, a mix of swallows and house martins.
