Bird of the day!

[Deer Stalker]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Bramblings in the wind & rain on the New Forest this morning.

......& some more this afternoon.

[PMG]

........ for me was that great northern diver again I returned last week and took a friend and got a few shots but not what I really wanted and Ian didn't get any the first time round - so yesterday we set off again for Hollingworth despite the forecast ........

We drove around from front to back and back to front and perched on the kerb in sev places which caused annoyance with some of the 'fit' walkers who made it plain that photographers and birdwatchers are nothing but a nuisance.....

Finally back on the car park 5 hours later with the weather turning stormy we were about to leave for home when I saw it appear - among the yachts! It seemed to be making its way round then disappeared again ........ so off we drove again round by the tower and found it must have crossed the front of the car park underwater! Ian ran out and I went back to park yet again and by this time it was very busy, raining hard and blowin a hooley and still folks were walking round the lake

I joined Ian and ended up nipping/limping up and down following its progress between tower and car park as it fished - even when the yachts were being blown onto the side it came up inbetween them! Its a juvenile born this year and prob raised somewhere where it didn't see any people - so its not bothered by folks walking dogs, or birders or photographers or yachts! So eventually 6 hours later in storm and rain we left for home and it was still fishing within feet of the tarmac parade

[Davy Crockett]

Can't imagin PMG sprinting, jogging or nipping anywhere, but her greatest atribute is patience as you will have noticed in her photos all over WAB

Bird of the day for me, is a flock of about 60 Canada Geese that wake me up at first light every day, (where's that rifle)

[Bishopswood]

Fieldfares for me today, in trees at the edge of a city centre carpark in Wolverhampton. Good start to the day.

[blacknest]

Originally Posted by pressld2

Kestrels for me today. I drove up to Donna Nook for the seals with Neil (Ukwildlifeo) and we saw at least six, many of them hovering very close to the road and giving us great, if fleeting, views. Dave P.

I misread and overlooked the first sentence. I had visions of seals hovering over the road! Then I read it properly

For me a lot of pheasants in Hammer Wood , Chithurst W.Sussex including one all-dark green cock bird (I cannot tell if a melanistic one ,which is a mutation, or a "Japanese Green" which are bred from the "Kiji" subspecies from Japan) It was in company with a regular torquatus (Chinese ring-necked) type
And then an all-white cock too! That gave me quite a start as it ran out of cover just infront of me. I'm not sure if it's strictly albino as it still had the red head-sides

[Ukwildlifeo]

The flock of starlings that started flying about just before the rain only to wizz into a [i]leylandii[/I tree just before the rain got heavy - clever birds

[pressld2]

Originally Posted by blacknest

I misread and overlooked the first sentence. I had visions of seals hovering over the road! Then I read it properly

LOL! I did word it very sloppily so I don't blame you for misreading it the first time. My only excuse is that it was a long day...

Dave P.

[agrumpycow]

Two goldcrests in my garden! A garden first for me and only the second time I've seen one

[Davy Crockett]

I had two juv; moorhens strange they didn't look more then about six weeks old!

[Jason Claxton]

A Red Kite just 2 miles from my house today ,we dont get that many around here