Been busy...

Wednesday dawn

*Only* one Wryneck this year...

When a man (or woman) is tired of Wrynecks, he is tired of life

Ringing tick - a Greenland Wheatear. Big bugger

Kingfisher...

One of three Water Rails, this one hatched earlier this year

And another the same age

Female Mallard

Wing of male Mallard

And a female Blackcap with funny wings. New feathers growing seemed OK though

'sno fun when it's this cold

Male Bullfinch


Female Bullfinch


Water Rail! (not bad for an action shot?)


Railtrack

There's no disguising the fact that there was next to no light at all today... Some more snow overnight had made everything look very pretty, but taking photos was hard work. Hence the poor standard of the images above.

The Bullfinches seemed unusually confiding. They allowed quite a close approach as they fed on seeds close to the ground. The Water Rail was good fun. It fed busily in some waterside vegetation before legging it through the snow across the footpath - which led to the photo of two of its footprints...


Snowy teasels


Snowy umbellifer

digiscoped photos taken with Nikon Coolpix 995 + Leica Apo Televid 62 with 16x eyepiece