The ambience that is a Mute Swan

Mute Swans for me have an ambience about them .
Small calls and snorts , Bright white , effortless behaviour , Grace and flying wing beats.

Ballyeighter Lough

Ballyeighter Loughs are a series of waterways that wander there way through Limestone and thick reed bog on the Burren lowlands. A very sparce, open wilderness.

Greylag Geese and Mute Swan were seen as well as local nesting birds such Common Gull,Lapwing and Moorhen

The old Post box

Oxwich Nature reserve

Adder

Grass snake

Oxwich nature reserve is a special  mix of habitat from woods to dunes to reed beds and ponds.
We saw Long eared owl fly through the wood being chased by a Jay. An Adder was basking in the sun ,A Green woodpecker was looking for ants, Garden warbler was near the hide , from the hide we heard Cettis and saw Reed warbler, Little grebe and a family of Mute swan`and a Grass snake swam passed.....all before 10 in the morning

Arrival time

Willow warbler

Blackcap

Grasshopper Warbler

Mute swan

A change in the winds to the East has given migrants a lift into the county .
The weather is fine and warm.The song of the cuckoo is in the air, all warblers are singing ,, hedgerows are busy with new arrivals..birds are on the move.
But a resident Mute swan ...can catch the eye

Lough Atudaun sunrise and a Pied billed Grebe

Lough Atudaun at sunrise in search of a Pied billed grebe