Still Surviving

Birding has taken a bit of a back seat of late what with gardening and ironing & now decorating eating into time. Perhaps though it has not really been any of them but more August being a really quiet time of year with nothing much to inspire me to go out.

However, now that we are in September, the pace will hopefully quicken and I'll do a bit more birding. Today however, I had a spare couple of hours and spent it at a fairly quiet Hogganfield. The highlight was probably the 3 plus, possibly up to 5 young Great Crested Grebe. Two were close in to the car park of which this is one:

There were also a good number of Little Grebe and I spent some time trying to get a nice shot with this one amongst the overhanging tree branches being quite appealing:

Also still surviving and bird number 200 for the year: