Burdon Moor

 Here is part two of my walk around Burdon Moor.

Goldfinch.

It was picking then eating the catkins from this tree.

I was leaning over a wall to get the shots of the Goldfinch when this Wren popped up in front of me.

Male Reed Bunting.

The Skylarks were soaring up into the air…

…then parachuting down to the ground.

Buzzard.

A first for me if this is a Tortoise Beetle.

A Peacock butterfly on a Dandelion.

A different Peacock butterfly on a Dandelion.

A small caterpillar crawling on the wall that I was leaning on.

Work

 I have started to take my camera to work again and in the last week or so it has paid off.

My first Comma butterfly of the year.

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly.

Peacock butterfly.

I’m still having trouble identifying Bumble Bees but I think these could be White or Buff-tailed Bumble Bee.

I think this is a Grey-haired Mining Bee.

Again, not sure.

Wren singing form the top off a pine.

Jackdaw gathering nesting material.

Song Thrush. This bird has been in or around the top of this tree for a couple of weeks.

A very distant Red Kite (I only had the 300mm lens and it was too far away)

I have now seen two Rabbits at work in recent days. I used to see them regularly on the pit heap but these are the first I have seen in ages.

Out and about again…

…a few days ago.

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

Another Small Tortoiseshell butterfly

Peacock butterfly

Comma butterfly

Ladybird

Long-tailed Tit

There are loads of Chiffchaff around now.

Chiffchaff preening.

Also loads of Yellowhammer.

Another Chiffchaff

Part of a flock of Geese (Pink-footed?) that went overhead.

 

Images from another…

…walk around the Causey.

 

One of at least four Male Blackcaps my wife and I saw.

The only shot I was able to get of a Female Blackcap

Still loads of Wrens around. This one is sitting on wild garlic

A rubbish shot of a Mistle Thrush

An even worse one of a Goldcrest (no idea why I am posting this)

And again of a GSW

My first Orangetip of the year

Peacock

Peacock

Something I have never seen before mating Bee Flies

Carder Bee I think

Common Bee Wasp