The bare parts on this egret show it’s coming into breeding plumage…
Apart from crossbills a pretty quiet day…
The bare parts on this egret show it’s coming into breeding plumage…
Apart from crossbills a pretty quiet day…
There were several pairs of Great Spotted Woodpecker all paired up in the park…these are males.
The Great Egret is still there too…
Some common birds from this morning…
Not much action in the other, bigger park…
A bright sunny day and a white bird; I can actually use normal ISO and S/S with the 600 f/11…
From the big park near my place this afternoon…
Something other than finches from yesterday…
Managed to fit this big bird into the frame even at 600mm…
A change to the usual winter finches. 3 of these around today.
More mild weather.
The redpolls have gone but now there seem to be Hawfinches everywhere.
The crossbills remain.
It appears the crossbill flock has upped and left. It wasn’t there on Thursday anyway. I only found 4, and 6 redpolls…
I was checking the crossbills mainly but there were other birds around…
There were 9 (!) species of duck on the river including this female Falcated Duck.
And about half a dozen Great Egret…