…around Burdon Moor at the beginning of the month produced a few canny birds.
Willow Warbler.
Willow Tit feeding chicks.
Reed Bunting.
Goldfinch.
Kestrel.
One of the many Whitethroats I saw.
This is one of a pair I saw nest building.
This is the other one.
This is the other one watching a St. Mark’s Fly.
Blue Tit feeding chicks.
A couple of Brown Hare.
A recent trip to Clara Vale didn’t produce Kingfisher but there was still some canny birds there. I didn’t go into the hide at Far Pastures but instead I had a walk up the lane a couple of birds stood out.
Chiffchaff from the hide at Clara.
This Mistle Thrush looked up and
this is what it saw a Sparrowhawk.
It then carried on doing what it had been doing.
My first Orange Tip butterfly of the season.
Yellowhammer.
Buzzard.
Crows were constantly dive bombing it.
Long-tailed Tit.
Chiffchaff in the reserve.
Blue Tit.
Female Blackcap.
My first Green-veined White Butterfly of the season.
Red Kite at Far Pastures.
Female Blackcap.
Male Blackcap.
The third and final part of this Blog is of the rest of the wildlife I saw at Burdon Moor. As I think I said it was a cracking day out.
I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye but
didn’t see what it was. I saw the movement again and this time it stayed still
long enough for me to see it was a Stoat with a Vole.
It dropped the Vole and just looked at me.
It disappeared only to return without the Vole. It then
disappeared again.
I could not believe it when my battery ran out just as
it reappeared. Luckly, I had a spare and was able to carried on shooting.
This Kestrel was hovering quite close to me.
It then gave me a fairly close fly by.
Red Kite.
It was being harassed by Crows.
At least three Buzzards were scanning the ground.
This Blue Tit was looking for insects in the fittings
of a telegraph pole.
Yellowhammer. It is thanks to this little bird that I managed
to get the images of the Stoat.
A couple of Roe Deer.
