Tuesday 25 February 2014

Look Through Any Window - The Hollies

With great determination I have managed to resist the temptation to commit the 'birds I have seen from the bedroom windows' to yet another list. While a 'hard copy' is not kept, the memory still allows the retention of most of what has been seen from these 2 vantage points which include, Yellow-browed Warbler, Mandarin, Little Grebe, Marsh Harrier and Firecrest to name but a few. During the prolonged periods of being 'rained off', I have retreated to this sanctuary armed with the trusty lap-top, and associate paraphernalia, to continue editing an endless number of photographs. Along with this boxful of goodies the camera was also to hand to record anything of interest from this view - just an exercise you understand??
The view across a couple of the many bird feeders, the lawns,
through the Wellingtonia Trees and onward to Parley Pond.
WREN
BLACKBIRD male
BLACKBIRD female
STARLING
DUNNOCK
SONG THRUSH
now vocal every morning come rain or shine.
GOLDCREST
ROBIN
PHEASANT male
PHEASANT female
GOLDFINCH
fly-by LITTLE EGRET
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
HOUSE SPARROW
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER again
MUTE SWAN and CORMORANT
on Parley Pond
Don't forget
Mrs CHUCK and her Cohorts
GREAT TIT
BLUE TIT
CROCUS
MAGPIE
FOOD for the local
SPARROWHAWK
 
which seemed totally unconcerned by my fumbling with the camera.
While all else from around and about,
GREAT CRESTED GREBEs
at Longham Lake
are undergoing their transformation into Summer Plumage,
while all in the Moth Trap, activated last night, was this
EARWIG
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