Local part 1

 A local walk with the camera recently produced some canny wildlife. A pair of Roe Deer came very close to me after a dog barking startled them. In fact, even though I felt guilty, I had to startled them myself by coughing to get them to turn away from me, the female was that close I thought I was going to get jumped on. A Grasshopper warbler (I’m not sure if it was the same bird I had seen before) put on a good show as I was walking back.

A pair of Roe Deer.

This image might have been taken with an 800mm lens but this is full frame no cropping involved. She was coming very close. 

After I had to startle them they both ran off.

Grasshopper Warbler.

My first…

 …Grasshopper Warbler of the year late afternoon yesterday. The light had just about gone, the Barn Owl that I had been watching had flown off somewhere else and I was about to go home when I heard a call that was unmistakeable.  I went to the spot where the call had come from and sitting in the brambles was a Grasshopper Warbler.

A distant Barn Owl.

Grasshopper Warbler.

Burdon Moor with…

 …no Owls in sight. Here are (quite) a few images from Burdon Moor from the end of last month.

A cracking Grasshopper Warbler posed very nicely for me.

Whitethroat were everywhere.

Willow Warbler were in nearly every bush (just a slight exaggeration).

Meadow Pipit.

Kestrel on one of the telegraph poles.

At one point it was hovering just above my car.

There were loads of Orange-tip Butterflies

Also loads of Green-veined White Butterflies.

Platycheirus species of Hoverfly.

Cheilosia pagana Hoverfly?