Redshank

With its bill open, you can almost hear the call. This one was protesting at us being so close to her young - not that we knew where they were. She was however quite keen that we, and particulalry Ruadh, moved. on.
A half decent day, decent enough for me to finish strimming the garden unfortunately. The artist retired to her studio for most of the day and I ended up untangling washed up fishing string for possible future oevre.