As coronavirus continued to change the way we live, I spent most of the month working from home and photographing the birds visiting my garden. Later in the month I started going for evening lockdown walks around my Somerset Levels village and surrounding countryside. I even found public footpaths that I never even knew existed!
I really miss my local nature reserve at RSPB Greylake, but these walks gave me my much needed nature and photography fix, and I saw some lovely birds, including Cuckoo, Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, Red Legged Partridge and Sparrowhawk.You can buy my '100 Birds' book here;
https://www.carlbovis.com/product-page/100-birds-book
Here are the photos I've taken during April;
^Above^ - Goldfinches
^Above^ - Greenfinches.
^Above^ - Blackbirds.
^Above^ -Collared Doves. The bottom one had some kind of illness such as canker, but I'm pleased to report that it recovered! :D
^Above^ - Blue Tits.
^Above^ - Blackcap.
^Above^ - Jackdaws, one chasing a Woodpigeon away in the bottom pic.
^Above^ - Woodpigeons.
^Above^ - Buzzard.
^Above^ - Great Tits.
^Above^ - House Martin.
^Above^ - Robins, plus a juvenile one in my garden, bottom 2 pics.
^Above^ - Sand Martin.
^Above^ - Chaffinches.
^Above^ - Starling.
^Above^ - Stock Doves.
^Above^ - Whitethroats.
^Above^ - Green Woodpeckers.
^Above^ - Sparrowhawks.
^Above^ - Little Egret.
^Above^ - Reed Buntings.
^Above^ - House Sparrows.
^Above^ - Swallows.
^Above^ - Cuckoo.
^Above^ - Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
^Above^ - Mallards.
^Above^ - Raven with chicken egg!
^Above^ - Dunnock.
^Above^ - Linnet.
^Above^ - Rooks.
^Above^ - Wrens.
^Above^ - Peregrine Falcon being mobbed by a Kestrel above my garden.
^Above^ - Magpies.
^Above^ - Long Tailed Tit.
^Above^ - Lesser Black Back Gull.
^Above^ - Red Legged Partridge.
^Above^ - Herring Gull.
^Above^ -Rabbits.
^Above^ - Hoverfly.
^Above^ - Bee Fly.
^ Above^ - Orange Tip Butterflies.
^Above^ - Holly Blue Butterfly.
^Above^ - Calfs.
^Above^ - Cat.
^Above^ - Sunsets.
^Above^ -Charm!
^Above^ - Singing Blackbird
^Above^ - Another singing Blackbird