Yesterday my brother @rob_camera and I paid our first visit Upton Warren nature reserve in #Worcestershire – here are a few of the #birds I saw and photographed. Our day ended with sightings of another bird, spotted by others in the Avocet Hide, and identified by me - more about that (plus some rubbish pics!) in my reply to this post.

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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad . . . Crow? These Cygnets were not happy, that’s for sure. Neither was their Mum, just out of picture, who soon sent the Corvid packing! Photographed at Brandon Marsh, near Coventry, yesterday.

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Avocets again? Why not. I'm collecting ’em – I'll soon ’ave a set...

(Photographed yesterday at RSPB Middleton Lakes.)

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A jaunty #Jackdaw, posing for a photo in May last year. I see (and hear!) these chatty little #Corvids all the time at nearby Fawsley, but they almost always make themselves scarce when I raise my camera. This one, in a Peak District pub car park, was used to the paparazzi. Love their pale blue eyes!

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Photographed at the end of January this year, at Brandon Marsh: a gorgeous Great Tit, most likely a female. I heard the ‘Teacher! Teacher!’ song of this species, and my first drumming Great Spotted Woodpecker of the year. There were some frisky Goosanders on one of the lakes too. It was a good day to be out and experiencing signs of Spring.

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The secretive, skulking #Snipe loves to play ‘hide and seek’ and is usually very good at it! I think sometimes though Snipes get a little overconfident in their ability to remain unseen – then they let their guard down a bit and start moving about in places where they are not so well concealed. I photographed this one at Brandon Marsh, Warwickshire, last month.

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From one of my outings (which were few and far between) earlier this year: One of a pair of Nuthatches who came to claim their share of the Sunflower seeds at Brandon Marsh. The background colour, complementing the bird’s chest and belly, is provided by a sunlit reedbed in the near distance.

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It’s Monday. If a fluffy Gosling will help you through the rest of the day, and the week ahead, this one’s just for you. Part of a family of Canada Geese at Brandon Marsh, near Coventry, at the end of April.

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A magnificent male Marsh Harrier preparing to descend into the reeds at RSPB Ham Wall, Somerset, earlier this month. My brother Rob and I enjoyed watching these beautiful birds of prey on all three of our days at this nature reserve.

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During a visit to RSPB Ham Wall in #Somerset at the beginning of this month, at least two different #Robins seemed to invite my brother @rob_camera and I to join them for lunch. We politely declined, as neither of us are keen on spider sandwiches.

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