Happy Christmas To All
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Dull and uninteresting weather this week but the garden has made up for it on the twenty third. On a very mild day we were graced with twenty Goldfinches, fourteen House Sparrows, ten Starlings, ten Long Tailed Tits and a ...
All Five Thrushes
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »On the coldest day of the week I took some great film of a Fieldfare eating Hawthorne berries on a bush in the local hotel car park. Normally very wary this Fieldfare posed beautifully for the camera and having filmed ...
One That Got Away
Sunday, December 14th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Having photographed a Redwing eating Hawthorne berries during the week I was amazed to find that it dropped two out of every three berries it plucked off the tree. (see photo) It was not surprising that there were other birds ...
Double Grand Slam
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »We have just had the best week of Winter weather I can ever remember, coupled with some very colourful sunsets. Three days of minus four overnight plus four inches of snow on the 2nd produced plenty of bird activity and ...