Had a bumper day today and added a few life birds, Great Crested Grebe (bit slow on that one!), yellow and pied wagtails.  Once again internet has been down most of the evening so just a quick note of the birds in the hope the net stays up long enough. Most from Keukenhof or on bus journey there.
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Carrion crow
- Chiffchaff – heard and seen
- Common Buzzard
- Coots
- Dunnock
- Feral Pigeon
- Great crested grebe
- Greylag goose
- Grey Heron
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Morehen
- Oystercatchers
- Pied Wagtail
- Lapwings
- Magpie
- Mallard Duck
- Moorhens
- Mute Swans
- Skylark – seen and heard
- Sparrowhawk
- Starlings
- Swallow
- Tufted duck
- Yellow wagtail
The Keukenhof gardens are great, but don’t go on parade day, it’s so busy!  I was hoping to go to Haarlem to see the parade at the end of the day but my ankles were worn out again and I couldn’t face another bus ride.  Hopefully one year I’ll get back over here to see the festival!  I also managed to update the best interest rates for instant access ISAs tonight as I was informed Coventry have changed their best interest rate to a 1 year and no longer instant access, you can see the best instant access ISA here: http://www.saverscene.co.uk/isa/highest-interest-rate-for-instant-access-isa.html (now closed as I move into gardening as a profession) – Gardening, birds, saving money and pensions my friends call me middle aged Gav, I’m 34, I sure hope to live to over 68!!!  I’ve been interested in most of these things since my teen years, just I lived in Australia and haven’t seen a lot of European birds and there wasn’t wonderful tax free savings accounts like ISAs there!  Sorry rambling again, had pain killers and beer!  whoops!  – Gav out!
Update, thought I’d list this as a friend asked me what a lapwing looked like, there’s photos on here from when I lived at Musselburgh