Showing posts with label swan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swan. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

they're back

04.02.09
it's the reed buntings, who were first spotted last year, 23.03.08
-today I saw two, but photographed one.
They may have been here all year long,
-but if they were, I didn't see them . . .










04.02.09
there was a "fly over", of perhaps 10 redwing.
Elusive, noisy, shy and fast, they remain a difficult bird to "capture".
This one was 100 yards along the railway track from the Mere, after the fly over,
-so it's one for this site as far as I'm concerned.





27.01.09
always worth including, the ever obliging blue tit



27.01.09
the lovely, elusive, ever-on-the-move, long tailed tit



27.01.09
two shots of what currently, seems to be our resident song thrush,
-on this misty morning, pointed out to me by Jack.








17.12.08
a young mute swan





07.12.08
mallard may be common, but they always look full of character,
-this female looks a bit threatening.




07.12.08

mallard, included here purely because I quite like the pic;
-they had their eye on me and soon made off.





07.12.08
little grebe, snapped way after the pair had been spotted.
Looking eerily atmospheric in the mist.

Saturday, 20 September 2008

Swan

I snapped this swan when it was alone on the mere. A couple of days later there are four fairly mature signets too. And a little grebe. And a heron. And a kingfisher. All at once!