I have been out a couple of times with the camera over the last few days. Nothing special but it’s always canny to be out.
I spooked this Roe Deer while I was out for a walk and
I nearly got the focus sharp as it bounded away.
Who doesn’t like a Robin.
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Mistle Thrush
I had the car in the garage yesterday and on the walk up to pick it up I came across this Long-eared Owl (I’m pleased I took the camera with me).
Long-eared Owl in the afternoon sun.
The shadows started to creep across.
I managed one shot as it flew off to another roost.
There have been at least a couple of breeding pair of Dipper on the Causey Burn for a good few years and I have seen and photographed them regularly whatever the season however, over the last couple of months I have failed to see them. I hope they haven’t abandoned this burn whatever the cause maybe. There is a bright side, when I was at the Causey yesterday, I saw at least one pair of Willow Tit, a bird which is apparently declining in numbers, feeding on seeds and small caterpillars. Trying to get pictures of them was, to say the least, challenging they seemed to always be behind twigs and branches.
Willow Tit one of a pair.
A small flock of Long-tailed Tit were also, for a
short time, feeding in the same location.
A bird seen regularly at the Causey, Grey Wagtail.
And one from a couple of days ago, a Pheasant which
was disturbed by a dog walker.
I have past this site on numerous occasions and this Little Owl has nearly always been there however, I have never had my camera with me, I put that right yesterday and took loads of pictures.
When I passed
on the way to where I was going it was sitting partially in shade.
On the way
back it was sitting out in the open.
It moved
from one place to another.
And posed
for ages.
Then flew
up into a tree.
…walk today and I found my first Shieldbug of the year however, if last year was anything to go by, I will have to wait until this Autumn to see my next one.
Gorse Shieldbug.
Coal Tit.
Treecreeper.
Female Bullfinch
in the late afternoon sun.
Yesterday I went to Bowlees for the Red-flanked Bluetail that’s been there for at least a couple of weeks. It was seen at 9.30am (I got there 9.35am) and it wasn’t seen again while I was there and that was until 2.55pm (dipped it). However, on the way home I came across this Barn Owl out hunting. It was always distant but I managed to get some shots (all big crops).
I have been out for a couple of short local walks recently, here are some images of what I saw.
Female Roe
Deer.
Roe Buck.
It didn’t
hang around once it got wind of me.
Nuthatch
looking for insects.
Sparrowhawk
landing in a bush.
A distant Willow
Tit taking the seeds from a pine cone.
Flyby Jay
Fly over Buzzard
