Redwing

It's always nice to photograph the winter Thrushes we get in the UK. Both Redwings and Fieldfares are lovely birds. Here's a few shots from last week of the Redwings.

 

 

Snow Bunting

We have had a few Snow Buntings in the coast locally for the last month or two. A group of five at one location and a single bird at another. I decided to go and have a look at the lone bird as it would be in better light. I arrived and could immediately see it perched on top of the rocks in some lovely late afternoon light. A few shots and 15 minutes later it flew high into the sky and disappeared into the distance. It has returned in the days since so I think it probably goes elsewhere to roost.

It has been some time since I photographed one of these lovely approachable birds. I'll maybe go and check out the group of five before winter is over.

More Garden Birds

 As the light improves and with a good deal of sunshine I have been making the most of it with more photography in the garden, here's a few more from the last couple of days.

Blackcap (female)

Common Buzzard

Goldfinch

Goldfinch

Greenfinch (male)

Nuthatch

Nuthatch

Garden Birds

 Nice to have some sunshine and be able to start this years garden photography this week. Here are some of the results.

Blue Tit

Goldcrest

Jay

Robin

Robin

Song Thrushes

 Here are a few of the Song Thrush images that I am working through at the moment. I have always struggled to get many shots of this species, so it is good to have achieved this over the past couple of years. There will be quite a number of new ones added to my Website over the next week or so.

Shovelers

Having just added 61 new Shoveler images to my website, I thought I would post a few of them here. I will be doing regular blog posts now with current images and also as I work through and add older ones.

Garden Foxes (2)

Part 2 of my series of the Fox family currently in our garden. Originally we thought there were only three cubs, but one evening there were four on the lawn, accompanied by Basil. They were very excited, chasing each other around and play fighting. We have always fed Basil our food scraps which are mainly chicken leftovers and bones. I also put out peanuts which the Foxes and Hedgehogs like. But I decided it would be a good idea to get some dog biscuits, which the cubs soon discovered.

I am able to sit or lie on the floor to take the photographs without a hide, which makes things a bit easier, although at the early stages, any movement and they would be off, especially when they started coming up on their own.