Pictures from two weeks ago (in Hyde Park, on the way to a meeting in Cambridge):
Rook
Common Gull or Mew Gull
Egyptian Geese
European Herring Gull
I’ll continue through the trip on the following days.
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Cool pics. The blossoms are wonderful, and that’s quite a spider!
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Some amazing photos. It is a shame I am not allowed to be jealous.
Richard
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Yeah the lynx spiders are really pretty. They have so much color going on but unless you’re closer to them you’ll mostly miss it. There legs are like art work.
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Second-year European Herring Gull in Hunstanton, Norfolk
From Titchwell Marsh RSPB Reserve:
European Blackbird (female and male)
A rabbit
European Goldfinch
Eurasian Greenfinch
Black-headed Gull
Eurasian Spoonbill
Pied Avocet
Northern Lapwing
Graylag Geese
Eurasian Curlew
European Stonechat
Ruff
European Golden-Plovers (3 of the 700 present)
Whooper Swan Cygnet
Common Chaffinch
And one example of subcreation: Ely Cathedral
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Lapwings look so regal when standing but hilariously drunk when doing their display flights in spring. Cool birds!
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You are not in Massachusetts any more!
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Golden silk orb weaver in her web catching the early morning light. Always hard to get good shots of them in their webs.
I liked how the coloring on the leaf looked like the rings of a tree trunk. Also like the goldenrods backlit by the sun.
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We were in their air space briefly on the way back. The last (and only) time I was there (ignoring air space) was in 2011.
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We have had huge groups of them parading through our yard and around the county. I have never seen so many turkeys this active in such large groups before this summer. 15 is common. But we’ve had a few gatherings in the yard a large as 40.
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Pictures from in Cambridge:
Coal Tit
All-natural solar filter
Walking from Shepreth to RSPB Fowlmere:
Female Eurasian Linnet
Rooks
Native-range House Sparrow
European Jackdaw
Ring-necked Pheasant
Barn Swallows
House Martins
At RSPB Fowlmere:
Eurasian Blackcap
Water Rail (I think, rather than a funny juvenile coot or moorhen)
Carrion Crow
Nightingale
Eurasian Coot
Little Egret
Gray Heron
Reed Warblers (begging junior below parent)
Then the walk back:
Eurasian Kestrel
European Green Woodpecker
Common Magpie
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In Cambridge later:
Mute Swans
Goldcrest
Common Wood-Pigeon
European Blue Tit
European Robin
Black-headed Gull
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And pictures from the phone:
A pea
Another flower (I don’t have any guides on Old World plants)
An introduced Asian Moth
A Jurassic nerineid in the floor of Paddington Station
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So many wonderful birds you are getting to see! Yes, you can “tick” the Common Magpie as it was recently split from the North American version 
I noticed that they seem to make slightly different sounding vocalizations compared to “our” magpies. And the Eurasian kestrel brings back fond memories of studying those birds for a 1-year postdoc in Finland.
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This is always such a great time of the year. The plants that begin in the summer and the ones that begin in fall kind of overlap here. It’s been a great first few days of fall.
Really been enjoying getting out and seeing all the biodiversity both flora and fauna. It’s a great time for butterflies, moths, bees and wasps.
I’ve been showing the buckeye caterpillar often. But it’s such a beautiful one. I think this is for if the better pics I’ve gotten if it. Shows off all the small specs of color there.
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