Sunday 23 June 2013

A chilled Rosy at the weekend

Suzanne and I headed up to see my family in Norfolk on Friday night and, with decidedly non-summery weather throughout, had a thoroughly lazy and laidback weekend – perfect! Saturday featured a trip to the pub to watch the Lions scrape home past the Wallabies (thank God they couldn’t kick…), a barbeque, and a little trip up to Wells for the rather stunning adult Rose-coloured Starling on the quay.

After checking my notes, it turns out that this is my seventh in the UK – but only the second adult bird. The first was a lifer for me, behind the Lowestoft Birds Eye factory on 18 June 1995. So, just over 18 years later, about time for another!

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2 comments:

Dominic Mitchell said...

Terrific pics, David - could do with one of these in London!

Martin Blow (martin.blow@rocketmail.com) said...

The Rosey starling is a stunner. Still not seen an adult!