A few birds from Tiergarten, Berlin

 

Lots of nuthatch around, this one collecting nesting mud

Middle Spotted Woodpecker. We did hear lesser aswell but afraid didn't see

The long-tailed tits were simply beautiful, little balls of white fluff !

A few goodies from last week

 

Cormorant

Bullfinch enjoying some buds, pity it never turned round ! 

Kestrels enjoying the bit of sun, and it was a bit !

Nuthatch high up in the dark canopy

Masses of pink-footed geese on one of our local walks

Song Thrush

and a beautiful Christmas robin 

A few from last week

 

Little Pixi cat sunning herself ontop of the composter

Nuthatch with nut

A rarity for us these days. This hedgehog was trundling around the car park at Messingham. We left it some nuts. Used to be a common sight as kids.......now hardly ever seen, very sad.

Some lovely colours and patters in this fungus

Quite a few Snakes Head Fritilaries in the garden this year

Now this is something you need to cast your eyes on !  A large haddock and chips from Johnson's of Gainsborough. Thick, flaky haddock, crispy batter, chips and scraps.....absolutely delicious !

A tree full of corn buntings

I soon got this work stopped. North Lincolnshire Council's idea of managing a wood is to totally strip every bit of understory from it to tidy it up.  The wood has only been there 20 years and already it is deemed untidy. They didn't get much more cleared before they got an e-mail from Karen and the clearing was stopped. A lovely woodland corner now totally ruined. We will be keeping our eye on this bit of woodland that we were both heavily involved with in our working lives. Simon did the species list and planted all 9 acres of it. I did the successful grant application form and ordered the trees. So hands off it !

Local birds this week

Linnet

Long Tailed Tit

Nuthatch

Red Crested Pochard

A very distant Red Kite

Redpoll

Tree Creeper

Our local skulking Water Pipit

 

Goshawks and Ravens

The sky was blue and the sun was shining so we headed off out for the day, not knowing what we would see. It then turned into one of those magical days. Not one but five goshawks, two pairs of ravens and 3 marsh tits. Pity the sun didn't stay long but still a grand day out !!

Goshawks 

A pair of ravens 

Blackbird 

Long-tailed tits of the two tailed variety !! 

Marsh Tits with leg bling 

That many nuthatch we lost count !