My local patch

One of the things I like about doing a Blog is that the images you take don’t have to be taken on the same day. Theses images were taken in the same area but on different days the 19^th and 21^st of March.

Dipper

Grey Wagtail

Gathering nesting material

Long Tailed Tit

Song Thrush

A record shot (taken with a 500mm lens). Comma my first Butterfly of the year taken on the 19^th.

Peacock second Butterfly of the year same day with the same lens

 

Great Crested Grebe

A few shots taken on the 19^th of the Great Crested Grebe on Killingworth Lake.

 

Hawfinch & Red Kite

We had a trip to the lakes last week and a visit to Sizergh Castle to see Hawfinch. First morning there, they were a no show so I went back early next morning. There was a Hawfinch watch on that morning so to protect the birds the public were kept well back. One male and one female were seen feeding with Greenfinch. Unfortunately, I only had an hour so only managed half a dozen very distant shots. On the way back over the moors, two Red Kites were flying low over the heather. By the time I stopped the car I was only able to get shots of one of them, L0 which unfortunately has no name.

Female Hawfinch. Taken from distance so a large crop

You can just about see a male Hawfinch popping its head above the grass bank

Red Kite L0

 

Far Pastures

Had a couple of days at Far Pastures last week. Pictures shown in the order I took them.

Wren

Mating Toads

Kestrel

Kite pulling shapes

Nuthatch

Kite being chased by a Buzzard

Roe Deer

Snipe

Male Reed Bunting

Wren

Female Reed Bunting

Buzzard

Sorry about the dodgy picture but it’s my first Chiffchaff of the year

Kite with lunch

Sparrowhawk

Buzzard