It's all about feeding, and being fed.

Another dry day, the cool NW wind continues.

I popped down to Half Moon Bay at 09:30 to take some lugworms for a school trip to release (Malcolm). This pile of flotsam, mainly wrack, was in the corner just below the cafe. 

I noticed that several birds were feeding on it and easily finding Kelp Fly maggots. Unfortunately, I only had an old pocket camera with me, but it proved good enough. This first clip shows a female House Sparrow collecting maggots for her chicks. She collects six in less than 30 seconds before flying off. You can hear the school children in the background plus the groundwater waterfall that discharges onto the shore here.

In contrast, this Rock Pipit was just feeding itself. It eats five in this clip.

Middleton Nature Reserve 

Janet checked in the morning.

Grasshopper warbler 1 reeling from the western marsh

Common Whitethroat feeding newly fledged young

Adult Chiffchaff with food for a chick

The Coot are still not tolerating the Mallard

Watched over by the regular Grey Heron

Male Common Blue

I checked in the afternoon (Malcolm)

Wildfowl as yesterday.

Warblers: Cetti's, Willow, Common and Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff and Reed. This adult Reed warbler was unhappy with me, I must have wandered too close to its nest/family.

These Hoverflies are Helophilius pendulus
 which, apparently translates to "dangling marsh lover" 

I thought (hoped) this Moorhen was going to cross the road, so I could ask "why did the hen cross the road.....". 

But it didn't, it clearly didn't want to get to the other side.