A few of the many hundreds of our feathered friends that have flown past my camera lens - Curlew

An adult Lapwing keeping a watchful eye on one of its offspring below.

June, and its safe for this Red Grouse to raise its head above the grass and heather.

A Golden Plover trying to make itself heard above the wind.

Another moorland bird the chunky Stonechat.

A dishevelled female Blackbird with a tasty morsel for one of its young...

...not a new variety of male Blackbird with a white breast. In fact its a breast feather from a pigeon stuck to the Rowan berries.

A Blue Tit collecting moss.

Chaffinch.

The normally shy Jay becomes braver in autumn when collecting nuts to store for winter consumption. The Jay can carry several nuts in a pouch under the throat and will bury hundreds of nuts every autumn.

A Long Tailed Tit.

Robin - Posing for a Christmas card?

Male Green Woodpecker.

A Meadow Pipit with a tasty morsel in the shape of a cricket.

A Helmeted Guineafowl getting in a flap. Normally found from mid to southern Africa I can only assume this one and the rest of the flock were domesticated.

A Swallow resting before its long migration south to Africa.

A Little Egret dancing in the sea.

A meal beckons for a Grey Heron.