Lamesley & Burdon Moor

 A few images from Lamesley (I haven’t been there for ages) and Burdon Moor.

Very distant Buzzard with its bait.

Male and female Shoveler.

Female Shoveler.

Male Kestrel with a Vole.

Long-tailed-Tit.

Gathering nesting material.

Goldcrest why is it they nearly always have a twig in front of them.

Reed Bunting.

The same male Kestrel with a different Vole.

Roe Deer in the late afternoon sun.

One of at least three Brown Hare that were in the field all of them ran off when a couple of horse riders came through the wood.

Wallington Hall

 A drive out to the National Trust property, Wallington Hall at the beginning of the month to have a walk around the gardens. The weather was beautiful and it proved to be a very enjoyable day out.

Goldcrest skulking about in the shadows.

My first Greenfinch for a long time.

Dark-edged Bee-fly.

Green-veined White Butterfly.

A well-worn Peacock Butterfly.

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee.

One Moorhen did not like the one being too close to its mate.

Little Grebe.

A Roe Deer wandering through the gardens. 

Local

24.03.24 A slow short stroll locally this morning produced some canny birds. 

Goldcrest. These little things do not stay still for very long. 

It’s not often you see a Goldcrests tongue. 

A distant Sparrowhawk enjoying the sun it must just have had breakfast as there were small birds flying around it and it just watched them.

It also had its eye on me.

That was until the Crows arrived and saw it off. How it managed to fly through the branches I will never know.

Goldfinch.

Song Thrush. I heard at least three this morning.

Chaffinch.

A distant pair of Roe Deer.

Burdon Moor

 16.03.24 Just lately I’ve been full of aches and pains (hopefully it will be sorted soon) and haven’t been able to get out with the camera as much as I would have liked. However, I have been that sick of sitting in the house I persuaded my wife to have a walk around Burdon Moor to look for insects (I certainly know how to show her a good time) the other day. We didn’t see much in the way of insects but there were a few Buzzards flying around and it was nice to see a Lizard again.

Lizard in about the same place as I saw it the last time I was there.

Common Green Shieldbug in its winter colours.

Gorse Shieldbug.

Another Gorse Shieldbug after an attack by the parasitic fungus Beauveria bassiana. It wasn’t until last year that I came across this but I have seen quite a few like this now.

There were a few 7-spot ladybirds around.

But not many flies.

I counted at least six Buzzards while we were there.

I managed to capture three of them.

This lucky shot is the only one I managed to get of a Goldcrest that was flitting about in a tree.

Long-tailed Tit.

Wren.

As I was driving back into the village, I could see a couple of Red Kite flying around.

 They were still flying around as I pulled up onto the drive and I was able to get some images.