Rabbits

Common as Muck!  Must be easy to photograph!  Try it!!!!

Wheatear - Three Different Crops

Having spent some time trying to improve this particular shot I could not decide which cropped shot I preferred.  I have placed the three best and hope someone will help me decide.None of these have been processed other than cropping from the original.

Portrait Matches Erect Stance of the Bird

Landscape Shows Off Dead Grass Flowing like Water

Cropped to the Maximum to show Feathers

Original No Cropping

Black Darters

It is possible to see these in September,but the weather we are having  is stopping me from improving on these shots.  There is always next year.

Emerald Damselfly

I originally went to watch the Ospreys at Foulshaw Moss, but they were too far away to keep my attention hence these photographs.

Male and Female  (Lestes sponsa)

Some one previously had been gardening to Photograph at this site

Pleased with this shot.

Wryneck

Up to present I have not shown photographs of birds in the hand on this blog..  This is simply because they are never natural poses. You can see below why I decided to break this rule.

Hence The Name

Feathers on Eyelids ?

Unusual but Normal Tail Moult for Wryneck

Brent Geese - Foulney Island 23/03/2011

These Dark-bellied Brent Geese were following the tide out of the bay to the right as you come off the causeway. There were approximately 60 of these and 100 light bellied.

Aware and Waiting for the Signal

The Ones Close go the "C" of the Click

The Tail End Charlies

A Turnstone Tale 22/03/2011

One of my local patches is Foulney Island. It is an island joined to the mainland by a causeway which is covered at high tide.  This gives the waders some protection from casual disturbance by dog walkers etc. Below is a series of three pictures.  The first one shows a Turnstone in summer plumage that has, just gone over, to use a flower arranging term. The second shows a bird still in winter plumage, plus ring.  This was taken last week .  The bird appeared tired possibly from a long migration flight. As I approached what appeared to be  another ring was on the same leg but above the knee.  I was unsure at what I may have seen.  The B.T.O. have not ringed this species on the tarsus for many years .  This made the bird almost certainly one with a foreign ring. I decided to move the bird gently along the beach.  It hopped along on the other leg for 5 minutes.  I did not want it to fly, just put it's other leg down. I thought the bird I was looking at was a one legged Turnstone and I had got it mixed up within the flock with the first bird.  Eventually it swapped legs although I did not see it do this and then it flew into the centre of the flock.  Only when I got home and viewed my shots did I see the flag on the tibia.  This is a white flag and that denotes a Canadian ringed bird probably Ellesmere Island.  I have sent off the details and am awaiting confirmation  

Summer Plumage

Winter Plumage Notice Ring

White Flag On Tibia