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Or at least, it's clearly thrush family, and there was a more mature song thrush about 2' along the branch!

Reading, UK, Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm

This Jackdaw was taking little flights of a couple of yards each while it hunting food close to where I was sitting. No single photo is outstanding, but the best of the set presented this way amused me.

Reading, UK, Canon R5 MkII RF200-800

Young Herring Gull, Prospect Park, Reading, UK. Curiously, Herring Gulls seem to stick to built up areas of the town rather than the park, and the Black-headed gull are vice versa. But this one was hanging around with the Black-heads.

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm

Female Mandarin Duck (less flashy but far cuter than the male) leaping off the bank into the water, and I got really lucky with the timing (if not quite the focus).

Reading, UK, Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm lens

Prospect Park, Reading, UK, Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm lens.

Alas, tracking a moderately fast bird with an overly heavy leans still leads to mistakes, such as clipping the wing tip!

Now this ought to have been taken with my 100mm Macro Lens, but all I had was Canon R5 Mk II + RF200mm-800mm lens, with a minimum focal distance of 0.8m at 200mm.

But I get the terrible feeling it was better done with the telephoto lens !?!

Anyway, what might be a female "Beautiful Demoiselle" (but could be some other sort of Damselfly), nowhere near water.

Coming in to land, Prospect Park, Reading, UK

I just find them so satisfying to photo on the days my camera is in sync with my idea of what to focus on.

Canon R5 Mk II + RF200-800mm

A warbler, anyway.

Reading, UK. Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm lens - foolishly at 1/500s (far too slow for birding with that lens, but got away with it).

Because we all need more spider, and I was taking my Canon RF100mm macro lens for its first spin of the year.

And no, I haven't got into on-the-fly (hah!) aperture correction, or focus stacking, but I quite liked having the plane of the web being the level of best focus.

... Have a variety pack from my walk along the Kennet Canal from Southcote Lock to central Reading, UK. Canon R5 Mk II + RF200-800mm lens

Whitethroat (?); Sedge Warbler (?); Robin (and why not!); Gray Wagtail; Cormorant; Grey Heron Mallard; And two more Grey Wagtails

Grey wagtails are obviously called grey becuase of all the yellow in their colouring, or something. It was a really bad day to be an insect along the canal - these were only some of the wagtails depleting their numbers!

Some bird names are easy to give :)

Prospect Park, Berks, UK Canon R5 Mk II + RF200-800mm lens

And a bonus head on shot:

Taken yesterday in Prospect Park, Reading, UK - I quite like it for all I'd accidentally knocked it to F13 from the F9 it should have been

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm