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.
First sighting of a Kingfisher for a while and they are absolutely stunning birds. This female was fishing for quite a while and I, once again, have far too many images. I was just about to leave when a young Roe Buck wandered through so I had to stay and take pictures of it (well it would be rude not to :-).
Female Kingfisher.
Little Egret.
Roe Buck.
A short sequence of it eating a flower.
It’s not often I take pictures of Rabbits.
Back to Hook Norton and a visit to a National Trust property, Snowshill Manor home of Charles Padget Wade. While we were there, I took the opportunity to photograph the dozens of Swallows that were screaming around the house.
However, I’ll start with a Yellowhammer from the
garden of the cottage.
Swallow.
In my first holiday Blog I have an image of a Swallow
with a white feather on its head. Here is another Swallow with a white feather
on its head. Surely it can’t be the same bird Otmoor, where I took the first
image, is nearly forty miles from Snowshill could it be a trait in Swallows
that some have a white feather.
Volucella bombylans Hoverfly.
It even waved us goodbye when we left.
The next few images were taken through the double
glazing of our holiday cottage. Brown Hare.
Thrush.
Juvenile Thrush.
Rabbit.
I started with a Yellowhammer and I’ll finish with
one.
