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On the way to work Friday a partridge shot out infront of our car and then about five minutes down the road, a pheasant did the same thing!  I shouldn't laugh but they both looked so funny trying to decide which way to run! ;D

Walked around Lea Valley Park this afternoon for about three hours or so and saw:
Green Woodpecker
Mr & Mrs Reed Bunting
Long tailed tits (making their nest)
Mr & Mrs Coot - with babies!
Moorhens
Geese
Swans
Hawk (we think a hobby)
Water vole
Herons
Little Egret
Lapwings
Chaffinches
Blackcap (male)
Robins
Various members of the tit family
Comorants


Had to zoom a fair bit to get this pic and we saw that there were more little ones in the nest :)

A marsh harrier's nesting site, out on a reedbed ;)

I watered a pot of hardy plants this morning, and very shortly afterwards noticed that holes had been dug into the compost. I filled a plant pot tray with soil, added water to make a fairly stiff mud and put it near the pot and stood back to watch. Within minutes a female blackbird appeared and proceeded to collect a beak full of mud and fly off. I watched where she went and was able to find the nest she was building.

we got a blackbird building a nest beside the front door, in the passiflora! ;)

Frogs breeding. Definitely frogs since I saw the spawn. There was also a dead toad in the lane, so they're on the move as well.