A drive around the Durham Moors at the beginning of the month produced one or two canny birds.
Female Pied Flycatcher.
Linnet.
Meadow Pipit with some tasty treats its chicks.
Ministry of silly walks.
Not totally sharp but Meadow Pipits having a mid-air confrontation.
One of them settled down.
Distant Buzzard.
Rabbit.
Up on the Durham Moors a couple of weeks ago. I saw at least three male Pied Flycatcher and heard others but only saw one female. I didn’t see or hear any Redstart but I know from other birders that they were around.
Male Pied Flycatcher.
Female Pied Flycatcher.
Linnet.
Nuthatch.
Meadow Pipit.
I had a local morning and afternoon walk recently and here are a few of the things I saw.
Goldfinch.
Blackcap eating Greenfly.
And calling from the top of a tree.
This Kestrel sat in the same spot for ages and I
thought it would be rude not to take a few shots but as I only had my 300mm
lens I tried to get as close as I could using gorse bushes for cover, it seems
to have worked.
It did eventually fly off to another twig, where it
had a bit of a scratch, so this is a slightly larger crop.
And away
To hover over the field.
Linnet.
I thought at first there was only one 7-spot Ladybird
However, I was wrong.
Dark-edged Bee-fly.
Tawny Mining Bee.
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly.
Just got back from a week’s holiday in the Cotswolds where I took a few thousand images so it might take me a while (weeks probably) to go through them all. In the mean time I will post some images that I took before we went away.
Male Redstart.
Female Stonechat.
Meadow Pipit.
Stonechat.
Linnet.
Robin.
Red Grouse.
