Oooo, a new screen for bird watching!

and through the bird screen was spotted... a newly arrived Stonechat...

meanwhile, on a sunny branch, a Migrant Hawker Dragonfly takes a rest...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ...

Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly on the path...

A black-tailed godwit seen on the pool today...

A Green-veined White...

another busy pollinator...

some Woundwort...

and young pike lurking in the pool...

And beautiful butterflies, enjoying the thistles....

a Small Copper...

a Gatekeeper...

a Meadow Brown...

a Comma...

and a Small Tortoiseshell...

Beautiful bees!

Wow, look whats appeared!
 A beautiful carved arch at the entrance to the walkway over the pool...

with lovely detail...

Dragonflies and damselflies galore!

An azure damselfly...

A Blue tailed damselfly....

A banded damoselle...

And a family of ducks settling down for the night...

Roadworks on the footpath.....

flowers on the boardwalk.....

and a Red Admiral butterfly on the meadow.....

A Scarce Chaser dragonfly on the river bank...

Lilies on the river....

Their leaves make a good resting place for the damselflies....

and these insects rested for a moment... what amazingly long antenna !

Flies are out and about!!

My view of the cow parsley...

And another pair of swans have had their cygnets (six) and are exploring the brook...

Seven became four...

Meanwhile, two cheeky young starlings are keeping a lookout to see where their next meal is coming from...

and on Friday there was an invasion of people counting everything from dawn until dusk... and later!

but some of us are just busy feeding our young - this is Mrs Moorhen with one of her new brood....

oh and if there are not enough yellow flowers with all the field buttercups.... the irises have just started coming out too!

The cuckoo comes calling regularly at the moment....

and so does the heron...

Seven new cygnets on the pool this afternoon....

and a pair of Shoveler ducks....

Some other birds that seem to be hanging around on the big back hedge by the pool...

A male Linnet....

a female Linnet...

and a Common Whitethroat...

as well as an orange tip butterfly...

and a banded demoiselle...