... wild and beautiful was the song of a Mistle Thrush coming from a tall beech tree ...
... before flying across a clearing to another song post ...
... and that iconic image of the exuberant display flight of Lapwings played out above ...
Tree Sparrows were caching in on the feeding chances at Campfield ...
... and a Little Egret looking pristine as ever against the leaden Solway as it flew past Port Carlisle ...
... and all around the Solway were parties of Curlew ... so deceptive in the light of the true plight of this endangered species ...
... also just passing through was a very distant trio of Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits ... two of them in full breeding plumage ...
Grune Point hosted fewer birds than recently but three Red-breasted Mergansers lingered on the choppy water ...
... as a Great Black-backed Gull wheeled overhead , calling all the while ...
... but a more spring-like image was created by a pair of Pintail ...
A day later in another bout of sunshine up the Esk at Longtown a Reed Bunting was performing well ...
... a Kingfisher flashed by repeatedly and two female Goosanders flew upstream ...
... and more Curlews ! ... thirty dropped in briefly ...
At home the finches at the feeders included Siskins and Brambling ...
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