Yep, I love blue tits, but I especially love this one below.
This is my favourite little bird, the coal tit. Isn’t it tiny?
And I finally got a photo of the woodpecker which wasn’t blurred, though as the light disappeared the rest were really grainy.
Well, I took LOADS of photos this morning but most of them were blurred. Duh! Must try harder. I had some great shots of nuthatches, blue tits, coal tits, marsh tits, a jay and a great spotted woodpecker but they’re all total rubbish, so have been consigned to the Recycle bin.
Here are the few I salvaged.
I love these. Nature’s so clever. They were really frilly and I thought at first they were dead leaves because that’s just what they look like.
Yesterday, I went with my son and his future wife to visit the venue of their wedding, which will be in June next year.
This is it.
Pretty impressive, huh?
As part of the ceremony, they’ll be having a Birds of Prey display and some of the birds were out on their perches yesterday, so I took a few photos.
More photos from Rixton today, but didn’t have a lot of success, unfortunately.
Love this little Common Blue
Small Tortoiseshell
More peacocks – lots of ‘em
Look at the hairs on this!
Another nymph – wish I knew which type of dragonfly it is. I was surprised to see a nymph so late in August. Not very sharp, though because it was a distance away.
Common Blue Damselfly
Blue tailed damselfly
Female damselfly but I can’t work out which one from the photos I’ve seen.
Another female damselfly.
I got a red eyed female, too but it’s not very sharp.
I think this is a female Common Darter.
These are male Common Darters
Saw loads of Ruddy darters but I decided I already have way too many photos of them!
Giant Shrooms!!
Today’s pics. Not much to show cos it started raining not too long after we arrived and we spent way too much time waiting for the kingfisher to come back to the hide – which didn’t happen!
So, I concentrated on fungi – one of my big loves. Not that I know much about them but I find them fascinating.
Pretty cool for something with such a ‘bad’ name as fungus??? Don’t you think? Isn’t nature amazing?
Went photographing again yesterday and got a few reasonable shots.
Darters are pretty easy to photograph because they land on the ground or steps in front of you and seem to love wooden railings – any wood, in fact. We did see a hawker, but it was far more elusive and there were quite a few really big dragonflies but we only saw them passing – frustrating!
LOVE the fact that you can see the hairs on these, even though you can’t see them with the naked eye.
Look at the ‘face’ on this one – it looks really SCARY! I thought it was a waps but looking at this, I’m now wondering if it’s another species of bee, like the one above. I actually found this one by accident, when trying to catch a small butterfly and couldn’t resist shooting it.
Isn’t this HORRIBLE?????? I have a thing about fungi, though, so I think I’m going to take lots of photos of ‘em when I find ‘em – as long as it looks interesting, lol.
