7 Drunken Nights - The Dubliners

 While we are not exactly snowed under by new additions to the Bird Year List it was a little sad that we forgot to add yesterday's

GREENFINCH
by virtue of the fact that it was at the same perch, singing its head off, the following morning.

Otherwise, things were laboriously slow with a pair of 

MALLARD
cosying up on the float at the Irrigation Pond while it can now be seen that the

PUDDLE of MUD
is a flatterned area of road shavings.

Better news at the Gravel Pit where our second addition to the Year List awaited with 2 x

COMMON SNIPE
feeding 'line astern'.

Across the Southern Paddocks the

FIELDFARE
remain feeding in treble figures, while the

CORMORANT

on the Main Pond was about as obliging as it could be.
Of all the Bird Species recorded on the day the most prolific were an unusual number of

WRENs

which led us to producing this short cameo on the subject from over the years.
Nest

within one of the Horse Feeding Stations

Rescued from a Ladies Boudoir

JUVENILE

Nest in the Garage
and finally something of a novelty, these

WAXWINGs
are not DEAD but DRUNK from the alchohol within the fruits they had been eating, we have no idea of the origins of the image?