21st May

Conditions today looked ideal for a Honey Buzzard to drift leisurely over the park. Unfortunately if one did I didn’t see it, maybe tomorrow. Birds were much as they have been.

Grey Heron family update; the juveniles have grown a great deal in the past week, though the smaller one still has a lot of catching up to do.

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That is quite a hole to fill and the primaries a well developed on this bird and one of the others.

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Mum arrives and you can see how the young area almost as tall as she is.

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It is absolute chaos in there.

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Peace is almost restored

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The female still seems to be on her own, collecting food amongst the long grass and holding things in her beak that I would hesitate to pick up.

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Starlings can be heard all over the park and seem to be increasing

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