Great Bullfinch Mike ... I love the way they always manage to get their beaks covered in sticky bits
Sadly not out today as it's tipping down here again
No photo, but spent yesterday watching a mandarin duck drake that's decided to stop in at Figgate Park in Edinburgh. Well worth a visit for anyone in the area - pretty spectacular obviously, but amazing to see it bullying the much larger mallards.
Saw a male Sparrowhawk this afternoon in the garden, it was tiny! It chased a bird right through our beech hedge and out the other side . It failed so it worked it's way back through the hedge and stood on the lawn for a few2 mins to get it's breath back.
No shots I'm afraid.
Greylag Goose from yesterday's walk round Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
Greylag Goose - SWLR by Wez Filtness, on Flickr
Greylag Goose - I have always wondered if you can eat them!!
Greylag Goose - I have always wondered if you can eat them!!
I managed to find 2 Long Eared Owls today, first ever time seeing them. Got a few shots but not worth showing here.
There has been 4 spotted together recently and I have been told that they have been in the same area at least the last few winters so it might be a winter roost.Excellent find I'm no owl expert but i spent a lot of time this summer watching 3 breading pairs of L
If they're local to you and resident, when they have young next year, they'll hunt in the last few hours of daylight every evening, it'll make for some good photo opportunities, its a great way to spend a lovely summers evening
More gloom and just a nuthatch and a willow tit from me today :-(
Driving me nuts too bro ahh man I need some sun on me back,but Roger that Shovler's not so bad if we don' try we get nuffin I keep telling myself this mate!!!!Light is really depressing ATM, keep going out and trying but it's pretty hopeless if I'm honest, especially for flight and distance shots
Fly-past
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Flying Shoveler
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Arrivals
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Bill goose is our natural peasant(in my case) chrimbo dish, turks only became our go to dish when folks worked out they could rear them intensively after importing from america. If one ponders it a bird that eats grass is pretty good for someone to rear whom has little money but a scrap of land ,yup as above like the mallard for domestic ducks the greylag is the progenitor of most domestic geese the only exception i know of is the chinese goose which comes from the swan goose if my old brain recollects this all correctly So yup as above they can be eaten by us although maybe the world might be a better place if we were not quite so inventive: I have little time for fois gras and how it is produced!!Greylag Goose - I have always wondered if you can eat them!!