19th June 2010 - Southsea Seafront

Just as beautiful as the Peregrines are any other bird, however 'common' people may consider them...

The niger seed feeder in a back garden always encourages a family (or two?) of goldfinches to hang around on these overhead wires.

Hanging around to annoy some juvenile starlings was this black headed gull- not that any of them seemed to care!  Much younger than those we saw the other week near here.

And we headed closer to the water...

A few sandwich terns were seen hunting the waters edge- I did get a few images, but I think I still have the comment 'must try harder'... composition: sky, shadow and clarity of image...

This was a first for me though- a Pied Wagtail who 'hovers'- all around the edge of this roof, picking spiders out of cobwebs... I would assume the nest is nearby, as he (/she) was clearly filling a beakful up before his (/her) return.

And who cannot love the lilting delicate grace of the woodpigeon; foraging in the fading evening sunlight?