Stockers Lake Rickmansworth - Bird Feeder Visitors

Sitting in a hide at Stockers Lake this week, I was watching a bird feeder that was visited mainly by at least four squirrels.

 

This was not a great advert for squirrel proof bird feeders, whilst..... 

 

....below a Brown Rat was picking up what was dropped by the squirrels.

In between the squirrel visits birds did manage some time on the feeder, including this male Greater Spotted Woodpecker...



 

...., seen earlier on the top of a dead tree, whilst.....

 

....Blue Tits and....

....Great Tits waited their turn.



 

Incidentally, when I left the squirrel was still feeding happily inside the feeder so I wonder if it found its way out!

Scotland - A Mountain, Two Birds and a Beetle

Back to early June.  A grey day with a walk up the lower slopes of the classic Munro, An Teallach.

Two small silhouettes of walkers by the trig point or cairn on the ridge of the mountain.  I will need to be fitter before I attempt the top.

A female Chaffinch in the woods below ready to feed her young...

...then a beetle with a beautiful blue tinge on the path....

... and finally this Great Tit that posed for me.  











Misty November Morning, Old Linslade

A misty start to the day. Mainly black and white photos as the colours were so flat.

Canada Geese feeding on rough pasture

A spiders web covered in droplets from the mist captured the coming brightness as the mist melted away.

A young Great Tit was close enough for colour

The swirl of water as the canoeists passed

Black Headed Gulls, a Jackdaw and Rooks in Silhouette