I'd love to be able to say that I photographed this lovely bird in its natural habitat but alas it was at a medieval show day and it was sitting patiently on a handlers hand..
I spent the morning doing a bit of family history research. There has always been a 'cousin' of my mothers that I couldn't place in the family. Today I think I discovered that he was the illegitimate son of my grandmother, (aged 15) therefore making him my mothers half brother. I wonder if she ever knew. She never mentioned it if she did.