Competing commitments

Salsa dancing is really taking a toll on my birding lately! No more early rises and rarely a full day of birding and exams will begin soon and as you may have guessed I've not been studying course material as maybe I should have been!
So all that means that the next 4 weeks will be a little slower on the blog...

Despite that I dragged a friend out to the Deer park today to show him the owls and other birds.

Here's a quick video of the White-throated Dipper and a Eurasian Blackbird (juvenile):

And some deer taking a mud bath: