Showing posts with label Blue Tit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Tit. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Our local crossbills are still around









 These were a surprise this morning as we didn't think they would still be around but we heard chipping and a good 20 flew into the tree tops. Afraid impossible to get any closer but excellent to just stand and view thru bins. Very mobile and they were soon off.


Blue Tits on a local feeder

Reed Bunting in with the yellowhammers


Lots of yellowhammers, just look at the colour, brightens a grey winters day up.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Out and about, a few recent pics

 

Yellowhammer, quite a few down our track but always so mobile


A Christmas robin




Kestrels - we see many on our daily walks



Inkcap from a while ago




A few goldcrests on our forest walk today, pity about the sleeting rain and snow ! Another grey than grey day....... wishing we were somewhere sunny and birdy !


Our flock of corn buntings are still around


Coal tit


Buzzard


Blue tit in the sleet




Blackbird filling up on the yew berries

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Last week's catch up

 

A lovely woodland walk


This is on one of our regular walks and every year the farmer has his sheep sheared and then the wool is simply left to rot in the fields. He usually leaves it in the hedge bottom but last year it was nicely wrapped in plastic so it will go nowhere. An absolute blot on the landscape and this farmer is a multi millionaire !!


That's one for the Christmas card !!












We have never seen so many pigeons in a field before.....there are thousands and it's a spectacle to see


On the moors, failing miserable with the shrike



Marsh Tit on feeders


Marsh Harrier


Now this photo doesn't do justice to the 20 magpies that were in this tree, quite an usual sight to see so many






Kestrel in the sun



and then totally out the blue, a ringtail flew over !  Nowhere near the area we have watched them all winter. That was a brucey bonus that morning I can tell you.


Lovely to see the hawthorn out, a sign that spring is nearly here


Grey wagtail at Winteringham Sewage works





Goosanders still on the river



Some lovely fungus 


A fence owned by the millionaire farmer that owns the sheep fleeces. Don't get me started !!


and a lovely blue tit, happy days !