Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) on the severn river near St Mary's church in Newtown Powys

: The Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the house sparrow at the feeder

: Kittywake juvenile

The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)" Aber

: female chaffinch fringilla coelebs, in the acasia tree "Garden

: The Rock Pipit, Anthus petrosus,an the stones of the south shore jetty Aberystwyth

Adult herring gull

Juvenile Herring Gull.

Cormorants and a The Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)on the rocks off the castle point Aberystwyth

: Cormorants on the rock bellow the cliffs at Aberystwyth

Cormorants , Great Black-backed Gull off the castle point.

Grey wagtail lots of these flighty birds around devils bridge getting a good shot was impossible.

The grey wagtail flycatching on the mochdre stream.

: and a closer shot.; grey wagtail(motacilla cinerea) female , my eyesight is playing up again (sugar diabetus) out of 12 shots this are the best.

: Kittiwakes on the rocks with Aberystwth promenade shot taken from the cenetaph point,

Red kite being harrased by the crow shot taken on the Rheidol valley steam train heading towards devils bridge

: The Isabelline Wheatear, Oenanthe isabellina. shots where taken high up on the cliff top above Aberystwyth

: The Coal Tit, Periparus ater, presumably Irish Coal Tit, P. a. hibernicus (note yellowish cheeks and breast) in the garden

: Spotted flycatcher

: One of the pair of flycatchers is darker than the other so its either an adult and juvenile or a male and female.

: The Coal Tit, Periparus ater, presumably Irish Coal Tit, P. a. hibernicus (note yellowish cheeks and breast)

: Spotted flycatcher

: One of the pair of flycatchers is darker than the other so its either an adult and juvenile or a male and female.

Wood pigeon just taking a nap.

: Male Juvenile blackbird in the thorn tree

Grey squirrel and magpie forraging on the police station green.

: Magpie .Pica Pica.

Yellow wagtail ( Motacilla flava )

: Not a bad shot considering how far it was

Nice markings on its back or rump view

Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

Male blackbird.

Great tit

: Great tit and a blue tit at the feeder.

: Blue tit the cap reminds me of the time I was in Israel watching the jews praying against the whaling wall in the city of Jerusalem.

Blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus

: Spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata

: Spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata the partner seems to have some kind of grwth around the eyes

White throat .Sylvia communis

Whitethroat,Sylvia communis another one that comes to the comunial feeder

: the pair of Great Tits are on the monkey nuts. the other seven are Blue Tits

Female Goosander on the severn river.

Mallards, drakes and hens and the Harlequin.

: a very dark coloured duck could be another mallard or a mallard throw off

muskovi drake shot taken before the barge trip

: muskovi hen with her brood hatch of six

: A Harlequin hen.

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Juvenile blackbirds in my front garden.

male ( darker)and female

Juvenile robins in the park

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WREN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES

NOW THATS QUITE A LONG NAME FOR SUCH A SMALL BIRD,

ON THE BANKS OF THE SEVERN IN NEWTOWN BETWEEN THE TWO BRIDGES THERE

ARE FOUR GROUPS OF YOUNG ONES I COUNTED ELEVEN WRENS

: THE ladies mantle ,seems to provide a few bugs for the wren.

WRENS NESTING HOLES IN THE SOIL BANKNEAR THE RIVER

MAYBE THESE IDIOTS PUT THE SEATS IN THE RIVER THINKING IT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO WATCH THE WRENS FROM,

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

MISLE THRUSH (Turdus viscivorus )

BLACKBIRD ( Turdus merula)

GREY SQUIRREL, MAYBE IF I KEEP STILL HE WILL GO AWAY.

Western Gulls(Larus occidentalis )on the Severn in Newtown

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)in Newtown park

FEMALE BLUE TIT( CAYNISTES CAERULEUS)FEEDING ON THE SEEDS OF THE HOGWEED (HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM)and the vespula germanica, german wasp feeding on the flower polen,