What have you seen
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Op
Adder looks good, nicely framed, was it on what they call the'Adder trail'? This is an almost guaranteed place to find them, although you still have to search for them.
Yes, to the lake, in a large earth bank.
I have to say it, although I'm sure you know...you cannot approach a known Kingfisher nest and set up a camera within 100 yards.....having said that, if you are walking past on the path and can find where they fish from, you may get lucky. It is a proper path with plenty of dog walkers using it.
Of course, you may have a lens that will allow you to set up well away from the nest site, assuming they are there this year.
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You're spot on Pliers, they are magic. Watched a couple of competing males today singing their heads off. We walked up the beach area from Wirral CP site to Red Rocks, just passed West Kirby and had Curlews calling and about 40 Purple Sandpipers on the rocks in the Marine. Also loads of Common Frogs bubbling away in a pond on the nature trail near Red Rocks.
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Op
Content this morning with the Barn owl, hunting for half an hour, then digesting the catch for an hour. Sitting on a fallen tree, it didn't move and in the end I gave up. It looks as though this owl will perform like those over the past years, hunting till 10.00, maybe back late PM.
By the time my wife visited two friends and I waited in the car, the Bungay waxwings were gone....I tried to show that I didn't mind, failed dismally.
Tomorrow rain due and oil change on van....might be kept busy.
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Hi Brue
I guess you know the area quite well, but if not, There are a pair of Perigrines that are getting amorous in the Avon Gorge. Just drive around the top of the Gorge on the Downes side, and you will come across an information board on a sharp bend. The birds can be seen flying past quite close and in trees across the gorge. Also at Castle Park adjacent to the shopping area. Nesting and hunting along the river near Fingles reach.
St Johns church in Bath also has a pair.
There are nice walks through the Ashton Court estate, which is about 2/3 miles from you. There are 2 deer herds (red and not sure about the other) to be seen.
The Waxwings were still at Tesco Bradley Stoke yesterday, but picture two shows them with lots to eat, the other shows we are close to losing them as the cupboard is nearly bare.
Enjoy Bristol.
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Thanks for the info BM! We enjoyed seeing Swans and Mallards down on the water too, plus a lone Cormorant near Temple Meads (they seem to get everywhere!) I can take a walk on the Downs next time I visit, my sister lives up there so perhaps she can point me in the right direction.
We got back home today and a female blackbird has started nest building in a shrubby area on the front of our house. This happens nearly every year and we rarely see her, the nest is usually well hidden and she is very clever at avoiding being seen.
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How is the progress on the new lens, any good shots?
Decided to try using raw files with the 5d mk4 as I have more time, only to find my photoshop and lightroom are not compatible with the latest raw files, so having to learn how to use the DPP from canon.
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Hey BM, Have got some good shots with new lens and converter but still a bit of a learning process.
Went to Strumpshaw this morning and saw both common Snipe and Jack Snipe. Jack Snipe continually bobs up and down which I didn't know. So apart form the broad yellow stripes on the back you can identify by the bobbing. Every day is a learning experience
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Having used a monopod for most of the sports events I covered, bird pics were very different and found hand held the most useable.
However, a fairly fast shutter speed (1/1500 plus) gave better results as my ability to hold the lens/ converter still enough was challenged. A very good photographer I know recommended 1/3000 whenever possible.
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A couple of good days here near Pickering. Lapwings and Curlews calling yesterday morning replaced this morning by a Skylark. Saw a couple of Red Deer Does in the woods by Cawthorne Roman Camps, and our first frogs & spawn in Cropton Forest. This morning I heard my first Yellowhammer calling, and then is evening a pair of Hares chasing round in the field beyond the site. To top it off a Barn Owl was patrolling the hedgerows around the site around 4:00 this evening. Hope to be ready with my camers for a return visit tomorrow.
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We've got skylarks but no sight of a Brimstone butterfly yet. Lots of different bees out. A neighbour keeps bees but apparently his head off in an easterly direction each day so the bees in our garden are probably from somewhere else. We have a lot of bumble bees living in crevices in our stone walling etc. it's good to see them out just now.
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I am pretty sure we have a regular Blackcap visit the feeders, but the OH thinks it is a Marsh or Willow Tit.
it moves so fast we don't get time for either the binoculars or camera to be sure.
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We had a couple of Tree Sparrows on our feeder this morning. Don't know if this is usual or not. There are quite a few about here mixed in with a flock of House Sparrows. 3 Roe deer were feeding in the fields beyond the CL this evening, too.
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Menace seen up the river.
Two canoeists told me of just having seen a mink swimming across the river.....30 minutes later bingo!
It came walking at my eye level across the bridge beside which I was sitting,
Ground nesting birds beware.
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GL have you reported your sighting, see the link below if you haven't. As you say ground nesting birds beware
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New homes to let. The landlord has been busy doing some re-roofing. first tenants have moved in, a pair of Bluetits. Four more homes to fill!
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Stopped at the traffic lights on the main road yesterday, and saw a Dove sitting on her nest on top of the lights, oblivious to the traffic.
At least she won't get cold.
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We've just moved on today from Keld Knowle Cl, near Pickering to Branwood CL at Bempton.
Rode over to the RSPB reserve this afternoon just for a quick look. As well as all the Guillimots & Gannets a pair of Puffins on th cliff face were pointed out to me. I certainly wouldn't have spotted them by myself. Just before leaving a Short Eared Owl appeared and flew around a few times close to the Centre.....so seen one at last, hurrah!!
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The reserve is about 3 miles from the site, mostly uphill, but there's a big free car-park, free entry to CC members or to anyone who cycles there. The footpaths are open when the reserve is closed for the day. Will know more about the footpaths after tomorrow hopefully. The site's called Branwood, basic (EHU and 1 H/S pitch) and sloping, but adequate, and easy to get to.
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