Can never resist a close-up!

A wet and misty day made it hard to get photos today but from a log pile opposite the nest, I watched the pair who are still bringing material, the male taking as much responsibility in nest building as the female.  There is nothing different to report except I did hear the male actually singing from inside  the nest.  He's obviously in a high state of breeding condition.  Again, they were displaying to each other but not with the same intensity as the day before, perhaps the miserable dull day just literally "damped" things down a bit.  At one point, the male brought a very large stem of dried grass complete with roots.  Instinctively it was still dunked and thoroughly soaked before it was taken up in to the nest. I watched the male arrive at the nest with a crash landing in to the water just in front of the favourite boulder and then swim up to it before climbing out. This was repeated several times. Each time the birds swopped over, the vacating bird would invariably flop in to the water before swimming back to the boulder before deciding in which direction to fly, sometimes over to me too close to photograph, but mostly down river. Sometimes they would spend 5 minutes or so collecting nesting material, arriving back again with a full beak. On other occasions they would be away for 20 minutes or so, obviously feeding.

Grey Wagtails, both male and female came on to the polished boulder giving me a chance to get great shots of them both, first the male.

The male Grey Wagtail at this time of the year is canary yellow and has a black bib.

The female is not quite so bright yellow, almost white on the flanks and does not have the black bib.