All the usual birds have started to return to the feeders. Great Tits, Blue Tits, Greenfinch, Coal Tit. Ground feeding birds Black Bird, Robin, Dunnock, Magpie, Collard Dove, Wood Pigeon and what I think was a Chiff Chaff in the Silver Birch tree.

On a walk around Kielder Water came across a number of these Dragon Flies and this one stopped to rest a while. Could not move a lot being on a wooden walkway and to remove the grass stalks s/he would have flown away.

A walk along the River Tweed in Peebles and this heron decided he was staying put.

A mornings walk around the farm we where on I came across a flock of Lapwings. They decided they would move over to the other end of the field, at this point a Sparrow Hawk came charging through them and splitting them into two groups. Also in the field was a small flock of Starlings they also flew up with the Lapwings. To escape the sparrow Hawk, both groups of Lapwings and the Starlings joined together and started to gain height to be above the Sparrow Hawk. This would be so that the Hawk would not be able to dive at them from above and they would be safer. At this the Hawk flew away and the Lapwings and Starlings decided a new field would be better.

Returning along the farm track I came across a pair of Gold Finches feeding in Thistles, and a large flock of Chaffinches in a corn field that had not yet been harvested. Lots of late brood Swallows about the farm buildings and adjoining fields.

Apart from the above only a few other birds where spotted.