Showing posts with label reed bunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reed bunting. Show all posts

Friday, December 1, 2023

Sunset Fox and Birds

When I first moved to Toft in the late 1960s, a favourite sunset walk was always to the rushy marshy area now occupied by the Meridian golf club which had a very large Reed Bunting roost in the winter. I thought when they built the golf club in 1983 that this would be dispersed but it just moved a short way to an area of farmland that is left in the winter as it is too wet to plough. As I approached the roost area I was aware of a large number of pheasants getting very agitated and it was only when I got home and looked at the photos that I realised they had seen the Fox before me! All the birds were very jittery but images of Reed buntings, Goldfinch and Fieldfare (we have dozens of these at the moment).

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Rutland Water Walk 2. Other Birds

The variety of birds that we saw at Rutland was great but the viewing distance and photographing into the sun for most shots means they definitely come into the 'for ID and Memories' category only. The Osprey(s) kept us entertained most of the day, soaring and hovering in the distance while Kestrel and Marsh harrier also hunted in the distance plus the usual wetland species.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Welney Morning Birds

We spent the rest of Sunday morning (after a breakfast in the cafe!!), general bird watching and 'snapping' on the main reserve so here a flavour of the session and including Cattle Egret and ?Chiffchaff (a pair were flitting in the bushes - presumably overwintered in UK).

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Lakenheath 2: Reed Buntings

With the recent rains, the water levels at Lakenheath are high enough to flood the feeding station giving great opportunity for reflection images. I also tried to capture some of the Reed Buntings in flight.

Saturday, January 15, 2022

Sunrise in Toft

Beautiful sunrise this morning for my walk across Home Meadow and the Bourn Brook Meadow  onto the Meridian Golf course. Very pleased to see Reed Buntings still present (plus Dunnocks) - when I first came to Toft, before the golf course was built, there was a big roost of Reed Buntings in the rough land alongside the Brook and then functional Oxford-Cambridge railways. But then every field also had its Corn Bunting and the woodland along the railway had a good population of Turtle Doves - 2 species unfortunately now very rare in the UK.

Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so