There's been a Black-tailed Godwit (now in its second week) and every time I've seen it, always hunkered down on the middle island... Thanks to a Sparrowhawk flushing the Lapwing flock, it took off with them, still distant but much better views!
Wednesday 29 December 2021
Venus Pool - Black-tailed Godwit
Tuesday 28 December 2021
Venus Pool - Great White Egret
Another visit by presumably the same Great White Egret seen during the past couple of months and today in less than favourable light! A familiar pattern of behaviour with the local Heron...
Hmm looks quiet today, a few gulls and ducks?
Maybe I'll try again tomorrow?
Friday 24 December 2021
Venus Pool - hungry Cormorant
It never fails to amaze me how 'fish eating' birds can pull off the impossible and swallow outrageous specimens! Like this Common Carp being casually tossed to it's doom by a Cormorant on Christmas eve at Venus Pool!
Monday 15 November 2021
Whixall Floods - Grey Phalarope
My third Grey Phalarope in Shropshire didn't exactly prove to be a showy success on Sat 13th when it was truly a distant dot!! Two days later I jammed onto it much closer and some decent pics were at last forthcoming...
All that activity seemed to wear it out and a rest on the bank beckoned!
Saturday 30 October 2021
Venus Pool - Great White Egret
Popped down to the ole Patch mid afternoon and nothing much was happening until... Yet another (or the same one I keep seeing there) Great White Egret!
And it was close, very close, I could only just fit him in the frame!
Venus Pool - Yellow-legged Gull (2w)
Thursday 21 October 2021
Venus Pool - Whoopers vs Cormorant!
The pool was nice and peaceful with the Whooper Swans either sleeping, feeding or cruising around. It all came to a sudden end when a Cormorant thought it would be clever to peck a Whooper Swan's foot?!
Venus Pool - Whooper Happy Families
In amongst the fifteen Whooper Swans present today, there were two family groups, who kept themselves separate. Family one had just the one juvenile...
Monday 18 October 2021
Venus Pool - Black-tailed Godwit
Apart from Lapwings and Sandpipers, Black-tailed Godwit has generally been the most likely wader to see at VP this year with a steady flow of them from late summer. Up until now, they had always been interesting as 'group shots' but today, one was obliging me in front of the hide - in cracking light!