A morning of frequent sunny intervals and a light westerly. I didn't feel that my last visit to the patch did it justice, so I tried again this morning. Another opportunity to play with my camera. I eventually concluded that it was better on auto for extremely distant birds and also for flying birds, but better on manual for birds in trees.
About 80
Redwings and four
Fieldfares were feeding in the paddocks, and there were also a few
Meadow Pipits and 42
Linnets.
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| Redwing and Fieldfare (auto) |
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| Bullfinch (manual) |
Walking towards the flash field I was pleased to see a pair of
Stonechats in the chat field, and could just see the
Tawny Owl in its usual tree. I also took some shots of birds in flight.
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| Kestrel (auto) |
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| Skylark (auto) |
Recently, the flash field has been pretty poor, but today it was a lot more entertaining. A drake
Shelduck was on the back flash with the
Greylag flock, and a pair of
Wigeon (first here this year) and three
Teal were on the nearest flash.
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| Shelduck |
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| drake Wigeon |
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| duck Wigeon |
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| Teal |
A dead goose floating in the sedge hinted at the reason it has been so poor for wildfowl lately.
On the walk back I heard a burst of
Siskin song from Stapenhill Wood, and further investigation revealed at least two birds feeding in the alders.
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| Siskin (manual) |
This species eluded my photo year-list last year, so I'm pleased to get some reasonable images.
It's not
such a bad place in winter.
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