These are mostly from yesterday a few of the feeder ones have been snapped over the past few days.
In an hour or so I am heading off to The Old Hill Inn which lies in the shadow of Ingleborough. If I’m fit enough tomorrow I’ll have a wander up it.
Frosty vans at dawn.
I had a really good walk and found this barn and a small tractor. All I did find!
Just after I took this the sky turned almost black with geese and ducks. The shooters are out today massacring pheasant. I bet the birders were happy. I can imagine just getting set up in a hide and all the birds heading west as fast as they can. It could have been worse the shotgunners could have been wildfowlers!
Male and female Pheasant……there are anything up to a dozen visiting the feeders. In two weeks they will be safe for another year.
Long-tailed Tits and a Blue Tit. There are dozens of each here.
Greater Spotted Woodpecker and a Robin.
The starlings almost stole the show for me but by a short head, the socially and intellectually challenged among, the visitors to RSPB Leighton Moss have beaten them. I’ve had so many conversations, most informative and pleasant but at least one a day which was almost surreal. Hard to pick a favourite but…….I was passing the public Hide on the causeway when the girls from the stables caught up exercising the horses….I was just passing the time of day with them whilst the dogs had a sniff when the hide door opened and out reversed a chap, tripod and giant spotting scope. He turned round and said… Bloody hell! What’s that? I told him They were Horses! It’s nice to be able to return an ID. favour to a birder.
I’ll be incommunicado for a couple of days. Then I’m coming back here. It’s a grand spot.
Have a good week.
