Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A few bits and bobs from the last week

 


Blackcap enjoying the last of the elderberries

Common Sandpiper


Great White and Little Egrets



Meadow Pipits


Pied Wagtail


Our pink-footed geese arrived on Saturday, thousands of them around the Humber


Ringed Plovers

Ruff


Yellowhammer

Came across this rabbit, it was fast asleep, spark out in the autumn sun !

This was the last bucket of carrots, now scrubbed and bagged in the freezer. Delicious !



The last of the dahlias, they have been stunning this year. Going to grow more varieties next year, they make such lovely cut flowers. Stunning. 

It's that time of year when a walk in the forest should give us some beautiful fungus, but we are finding this year that the ground is all trampled and all the mushrooms picked......the whole lot. Foragers have a lot to answer for.


This is a new fungus for us. We think it's a Beefsteak. A stunning red fungus growing on oak. 

Bluethroat, RSPB Blacktoft Sands

 Some cracking views of the bluethroat a couple of weeks ago  😀😀

So far away, it was almost in Goole ! It is to the right of the wagtail, believe me !









Thursday, September 16, 2021

Bearded Tits

 










A good showing of bearded tits this morning before the bluethroat came on the pager at Blacktoft.......so we drove there and didn't see it as it had disappeared for the day !

Wheatears from this morning

 













A few wheatears on our morning walk along with 2 ringed plover, common sandpiper and dunlin and a little owl on the journey. 

Glossy Ibis, Blacktoft Sands RSPB