Urban birding at Hull: a May walk to the Setting Dyke

 A morning walk to the Setting Dyke area. The female mallard has managed to get 8 of her 10 ducklings to a good size (above). The dyke is looking good, many marginal and floating plants growing, the water transparent. I notice some fish, the photos show that they are sticklebacks, males in breeding colours, actively defending nest sites, and females with a full abdomen, ready to lay.

Male Three-spined Stickleback.

Mature female stickleback, much more camouflaged.

Singing Wren.

A Woodpigeon on nest.

A Mistle thrush feeding in the middle of the playing fields.

Bird list

1. Blackbird
2. Blackcap
3. Blue Tit
4. Carrion Crow
5. Chaffinch
6. Collared Dove
7. Dunnock
8. Feral Pigeon
9. Goldfinch
10. Great Spotted Woodpecker
11. Greenfinch
12. Herring Gull
13. House Sparrow
14. Lesser Black-backed Gull
15. Linnet
16. Long-tailed Tit
17. Magpie
18. Mallard
19. Mistle Thrush
20. Robin
21. Song Thrush
22. Starling
23. Swift
24. Woodpigeon
25. Wren