Great and Small

As a distraction from the manifold failings of the British Labour party, we went today for a walk along the Slovak-Hungarian border, on the Danube floodplain. This turned out to be much more satisfactory. We saw*

buzzards:

a marsh harrier (terrible picture, but a good one to have seen):

and the usual kestrels:

Lots of waterbirds;

common terns:

herons:

mute swans:

black-headed gulls:

red-crested pochards:

goldeneyes tufted ducks:

and of course mallards, being shepherded between reed banks:

And little ones.

Stonechats male:

and female:

nestbuilding (the nest is the very slight hummock on the left): and one of the 67 European species of warbler (possibly reed warblers) warbling:      

*Species identifications not guaranteed correct