A bit of sunshine, but for how long?
A few bits and pieces to report from this mornings frosty, but sunny visit to the lakes, which were almost entirely frozen over, so just a few MALLARDS were seen standing on the ice. There were however flyovers from firstly a GREY HERON, then a little later the first LITTLE EGRET (49) for the year, a good species to get on the list.
SPARROWHAWK, BUZZARD and KESTREL were all seen up hunting as I walked across the Ashes Lane Fields, where there are still plenty of FIELDFARE and REDWING present, along with a few MEADOW PIPIT.
With the total lack of light recently, photo's have been hard to come by, if at all! So I had a bit of a session at my garden feeders this afternoon, at this time of year the light is very transitory, plus it comes from the wrong angle ( never happy me!) Here's a couple of images I rescued from the ''delete'' button :-)
COAL TIT, one of the 20 species to visit this afternoon
GREAT TIT
8 comments:
That first photograph does rather contradict your almost daily complaints of habitat destruction, I can't be the only one that looks at that and thinks of all the wildlife that it must contain.
Great to see you got Little Egret.Always a struggle here and missing in a lot of years recently Warren.
Derek,
what can you see in the first two fields of sheep pasture ? A few Crows!!
It all looks very pretty to the human eye, but habitat it is not!
Yes Steve, its always good to get Little Egret early on the patch list :-)
Little Egret is always a good patch bird to get.
A few leaves on the tree's would have made this pic appear taken in May Warren.
Well I wouldn't expect to be able to see any small passerines or other wildlife at that distance. If you have a look at the Northdownsandbeyond blog for last Monday, that's what you call habitat destruction, not having a few bushes cut down, and yet Steve still manages to see a positive from it.
20 species in your garden in one afternoon! I only got 32 all last year and that included fly-overs!
Keep up the good work
Cheers
DaveyMan
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