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Tuftie drake over by the island on the upper pool at Perton was behaving rather oddly. I think it was preening, but hard to be sure from a distance.

A repeat showing for some videos showing some of the users of garden bird feeders

These are all pre-pandemic, dating back to 2017 and 2019

Most herons are now congregating at one or other of the local heronries. Not this bird, which was by the island on the upper pool at Perton recently. Probably it’s not yet mature.

Rosebay willowherb seeds normally float through the summer air on their feathery seeds, sometimes called sugar stealers. These plants held on to just a few of theirs from last year.

For St Valentine’s Day, a short video of a pair of swans engaging in the coordinated aquatic dance which is their courtship ritual It’s possible the dance ended with the pair mating, though I didn’t wait around to see.

The swans were on the Avon at Stratford back in spring 2019, and were filmed on a mobile.

The goosanders which turned up on the upper pool at Perton before Christmas seem set to stay for a while. Its’s harder to estimate how many now that they are scattered around the water, but numbers are possibly in the teens.

Last time I visited, there was one lone female on the lower pool. She’s the one in these pictures.