Spring Migrants at last

Managed to get out for a quick walk this morning to the Goyt Valley and picked up the two target species. Both Pied Flycatchers and Common Redstarts showed in poor light and a little distant when the camera came out. However  I was very happy to see a pair of each showing well at times.

female Common Redstart

 

male Pied Flycatcher



female Pied Flycatcher

 

The evening before I stopped at the other end of the valley while returning from a day out and managed a single Short Eared Owl .





Spring in the woods

Teggs Nose CP should get me a few year birds, so an hour before work with hope of seeing Blackcap, Pied Flycatcher and Common Redstart..... thankfully they all obliged.

A male Blackcap was singing as I arrived at the small car park, too high up and silhouetted to make any attempt at an  image.

Not too long after I could hear the call of a Pied Flycatcher. Sure enough just a single male.

 

and right on cue the Common Redstart

 

Plenty of Willow warblers and Chiffchaffs also., while a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers mated.