monday 16th febuary 2009, day 2 of the holiday

day 2 and we decided to go to arnside via the train. this ivolved us going over morcambe bay via bridge. this ment we got to see all the shelducks and redshanks on the way there. once there we began walking.

   

a pretty song thrush in a field

   

large numbers of redshanks in the mud

 

a heron fishing

 

a curlew

 

he gave up

the bay was swarming with flounders which meant we could see some very comical and sometimes horrific bird behavior

after stealing this flounder from a Lesser Black-backed Gull the cormorant proceeded into the sea to eat it whereupon it dropped and lost it.

a Great Black-backed Gull pulling the same trick only it managed to succeed in eating its prey

all in all a thrilling day.

sunday 15th febuary 2008, day 1 south cumbria/north lancashire holiday

day one of our holiday. first things first-we went to grange-over-sands our local town to have a look around. lucky for me they had an ornamental park with a wildfowl colection so began to take some photos

wigeons at war

ruddy shelduck in a flap

hawaian goose or nene, worth seeing before they become extinct

shelduck having a wash

their still at it

when we came back to the site we discovered the people caravaning across from us had put up a bird table. so i sat and waited to see what would come

coal tit

great tit chaseing off a blue tit

treecreeper up a tree

marsh tit-one of the best birds this holiday

a nuthatch

this was to be a promising holiday, my dad had said we would go to leighton moss RSPB so my head was full of bittern after they evaded me last time.

manor heath sunday

the big garden birdwatch

the big garden birdwatch has always been a bit wierd for me. last year we only had 1 dunnock. this year though we had 3 dunnocks, 1 great tit, 1 robin, 4 blue tits, 2 goldfinches, 1 blackbird and a greenfinch
here are some of the photos i took through the window


robin on the bird bath

blue tit analysing the feeder.......

........from a different angle

should he take the plunge????

he cant look any more

a new lense for the new camera

got my new 300ml lense of friday-=here are some of the garden bird pictures

goldfinch

finches

finches

finches

starling

these were taken no more than 10mins ago

these however were taken sunday aka yesterday morning

great tit

great tit

blue tit

redwings

30ish redwings in bradshaw this afternoon
strictly speaking not in bradshaw but below the school in a feild
good views

new camera and howarth

bought my new sony alpha 200 slr yesterday but was too dark to test it
tried it this morning.....

....but still some way to go

then took it to howarth to have a go

1 dipper

infinate long tailed tits