madamcoolpix
a.k.a. Madam Butterfly
First day in England. I stayed in Nottingham visiting my BF friends Sandpiper and Damselfly (Mike & Carol Powell) but managed to see loads of people from BF too!!! :bounce: (In the Members Faces section of the gallery there is a pics galore of these encounters! :-O) Another BF buddy (Scottishdude) picked me and my sister up at Luton airport and arriving to Nottingham we did a couple of stops to have the first taste of the summer birds in England. Here I ticked another species for the year list:
10 August 2010: Nottingham, C England
229. Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
It's the first pic. I'm including here another picture taken in Nottingham a few days later. It's the Common Starling… oddly, I thought it was going to be very common but saw it only in 3 spots and always quite far away! :eek!: This was my only close encounter with a little flock, in a very cloudy and dark morning.
10 August 2010: Nottingham, C England
229. Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
It's the first pic. I'm including here another picture taken in Nottingham a few days later. It's the Common Starling… oddly, I thought it was going to be very common but saw it only in 3 spots and always quite far away! :eek!: This was my only close encounter with a little flock, in a very cloudy and dark morning.