cotwolds holiday-day 5

We went home today. I was hopeing for a wildlife filled last day but my dreams were shattered. We went to a national trust property outside of Stratford-Upon-Avon. It had a big house and a deer park which meant that there might be birds such as pheasant and partridge. And perhaps mipit and skylark too ,although its a bit late for them.

there was also a pond which is where I went first to see what was there. Besides the shellduck there was nothing. I haddent realised but my shutter-speed was still quite low after yesterday, and so most of my potential shellduck shots were no good.

And as I said there was a deer park and so naturally there were deer there too, including one that was very tame.

sadly as I said there was nothing really see, although at one point a kingfisher came rocketing past, probably heading to more productive areas. there were also two dapchicks on the river, although they did not stick around for a photo.

Day 4-brdignorth (wednesday)

today we packed up. on the way back we stopped off at a national trust place. it had loads of grouns and a deer park. no prizes for guessing that i went to the deer park first. the deer were shy but i managed to find them. what was most spectacular was the hunderends om mipits that eurupted from the path around me. feildfares were flying overhead in flocks of about 20. they kept stopping off at one tree so i managed to get some pictures. as i walked round i caught up with a buzzard and a seven spotted ladybird plus a wren and a robin. there was also a very shy moorhen on the river.

a seven spotted ladybird!!

the first this year in the midst of the harliquin front line

a very tame fallow deer

some not so tame fallow deer

plenty of feildfares were on passage

when we left i remeber seeing a little egret on the river but we couldnt stop so i diddnt get any pictures.