First Chicks
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The first chicks of the season have been ringed on Salisbury Plain, where Jack, one of the Swaledale Ringing Group rings. He found a nest of Mistle thrush chicks.
He also spotted this female Blackbird sitting tightly on her nest.
Back at Foxglove a pair of Tufted Ducks have arrived back on the lake. Last year there were two pair and one hatched and reared nine young whilst the other reared four.
The camera was at full zoom, just ready to take a photograph of the female. That is her tail!
On checking the next photo, which is not brilliant of her, it does show very well the drop of water on her beak.
We await the arrival of the second pair.