Lockdown Birds
Todays blog and photos have been taken in the garden during the last seven weeks. The irony has been the unprecedented sunny weather and as a result the wildlife part of the garden at the back was in deep shade – all day! We have never had seven weeks like it at this time of year!
There have been plenty of birds in the garden with twenty four different species seen on one day. One of the photos is of a male Reed Bunting which has adapted to feeding on the fat-ball feeders, something we have never seen before. click here
Published by
Gordon Yates
Updated on
May 10, 2020
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Alongside filmmaking, Gordon has earned recognition in still photography competitions with the BBC, RSPB, Scottish Wildlife, and the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club — using his trusted Pentax equipment. One of his proudest achievements was seeing ten minutes of his work broadcast by Granada Television — a milestone in a lifetime dedicated to wildlife storytelling. Today, he continues capturing the natural world with his Canon EOS 7D and Canon XM2 digital camcorder.