Early Cresswell morning
I had a morning at Cresswell Pond today. Cresswell Pond is a Northumberland Wildlife Trust site. I left home at 04:30 to get to the hide at 05:45, just before the sun comes up. I sat in the hide with my flak of coffee and my pack of sandwiches. It was a fine sunny morning and when the sun got fully up, the light was really good. There was a number of interesting birds, black tailed godwits, bar tailed godwits, dunlin, knot, redshank, and a few ringed plovers. There was about 270 lapwings. A peregrine came in mid-morning and flushed the waders as did a female sparrow hawk some time later....
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I was wandering down a lane near Coldstream in the Scottish Borders and I saw these partridges scratching about in a field. I quite like to watch these little birds, they’re very sociable and full of character.
read moreArdnamurchan wildlife.
I spent a couple of days on Ardnamurchan looking at wildlife, I was hoping to see the elusive otter. This area is the most populated with otters….. or so they say. I was in the area for three days and was out and about at 05:30 every morning and never got sight of a single otter. There were thankfully other compensations, I was seeing lots of small groups of red deer in the area does with fauns and stags roaming the area early in the mornings and late in the evenings. So I targeted them., during which time I managed to get some decent pictures of a very obliging buzzard. The pictures...
read moreGrouse dodging the shooters on the Lammamuirs
I took a trip up to the Lammermuir Hills past Longformacus on the Gifford road. I thought I would go and get pictures of the red grouse in the purple heather. The shooting season opened on the 12th the glorious 12th, some body must explain why its glorious to shoot the grouse or are they referring to the heather and its fabulous colours? Anyway I thought I would get some grouse pictures in the heather before they all go and get themselves shot. After I took the pictures I traveled along the road a little further and cam across a dozen or more beaters for a shot. I stayed a while and watched...
read moreBabies in my garden
I was at in the garden this afternoon, and couldn’t help notice how many juvenile birds were flying around, great spotted woodpecker, great tit, blue tit, chaffinch and siskin. So I got the camera and managed to get these images.
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