Second Batch

Now I've had a while longer to go through and edit some more of the images I took yesterday I shall post some more:

I did manage to get one half decent image of an Owl with a prey item:

This image is my entrant for the "Artsy Fartsy image of the day":

And this image is to mix things up. To stop things getting repetetive!

Gullfest at Jubilee Park

As the title of this post suggests, I went to Jubilee today and saw some gulls. Normally there are gulls of one species (Black Headed) but today yielded four! The ever present Black Headed Gulls were joined by a few Common Gulls, two Herring Gulls and a Lesser Black Backed Gull that I originally incorrectly identified as Yellow Legged (oh, the shame) but after being pointed in the right direction by the Llama is definately a LBB (patch tick all the same!).

Dont know which fool thought this was yellow legged....that would be me.

The Wigeon numbers have exploded too, up from 7 last time to a whopping 60 today. The hoped for Goosander were absent from the pool however, perhaps because the levels are so low. As I was scanning the pool a familiar sound reached my ears for the first time in ages here - Kingfishers calling! Two birds quickly stormed past, chasing each other but didn't linger for photographs, it was nice enough to see them back here after the recent harsh winters. A few other decent patch birds showed around the park including Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail and Coal Tit but otherwise there wasn't much about except for a dog that was the size of a small, actually make that a large, horse.



these twig-in-the-way shots are really starting to harsh my mellow



no twigs but terrible light.