Blackstone Edge

Ringed Plover: 2 non-breeding adults. Non-breeding Ringed Plovers lose the black frontal bar above the forehead, while juveniles have pale fringes on the upperpart feathers.

The LEFT bird above has a fairly broad breast band and dull orange legs.

The RIGHT bird is warmer brown and has a thin breast band. Its legs are dark with just a hint of orange.

The thinner breast band, darker legs, and warmer brown upperparts made me wonder if the right bird is female - with the other being male - but I cannot find any authority to support this idea.

Cold Edge

Scaup juvenile still here

Blackstone Edge

3 white Greylag Geese. The question is, are they leucistic or albino? Collins Bird Guide (2022, Svensson et al): LEUCISM - innate pigment deficiency leading to pale, washed-out colours of the plumage; ALBINISM - innate lack of pigment, usually in the feathers, leading to partly or completely white plumage. So these birds are albino, and the above definition still lets them have coloured legs and bill and orbital ring.

Cold Edge, 28 August

These photos of the Collared Doves support Mick C's comment about their collars. The black of the male's is thicker, with even white margins not seen in the female's. Only the upper edge of the female's collar has a white margin

Cold Edge

Collared Doves, with one preening the other. This species is not as common as it used to be

These birds are clearly a pair. Collins Bird Guide (Svensson et al, 3rd edition) describe Collared Doves as "rather uniformly pale buff-grey with somewhat browner tone on back . . .", but then say "male on average purer pink with faint bluish sheen on head, neck and breast than female, which is more buffish-grey." Personally I cannot see any pink on these birds, but I can see a slight colour difference. I see the grey of the crown and body of right bird (the female?) with a hint of buff, that is not present in the (presumed) male. And I would simply describe the crown and underparts of the male as pure grey.

Cold Edge

Kestrel female

Blackbird juvenile. Ginger

Also:  Willow Warbler 2,  Spotted Flycatcher 1

Cold Edge

Gadwall female. The bird was seen at quite close range when I stepped up from the path west of Leadbeater dam to view Haigh Cote dam. It was swimming with the 'resident' juvenile Scaup. It was flighty, and quickly departed east, while the Scaup stayed put. My photo is not sharp, but shows enough to make the identification. The head is quite plain, and paler brown than the body. The bill is slim, with the proximal two thirds of its side orange. Some of the dull white in its speculum is visible. The tail side is brown, not white.

Stonechat juvenile moulting into adult plumage

Cold Edge

Stonechat 6, including 1 juvenile and a female carrying food

Ogden

Great Crested Grebe 1