Happy Christmas

Cheers everyone!

Goldfinch

Lots of Goldfinches have been visiting a tree in our next door neighbours garden and I can just about photograph them from one of our back bedroom windows. They do not usually visit this tree to my knowledge, but I suppose this extreme cold weather has meant that they have to feed on whatever they can find, not what they would prefer. as you can see from the pics the tree has some kind of catkin type seed head from which they are extracting the little seeds

Out and about in the snow

Had a good afternoon wandering around the nature reserve after our snowfall yesterday. You can always rely on the Robin to show up. Anyway here are some of the pics that I managed to get

Backlit Robin

Anybody who knows Alcester nature reserve, will know where this is, it is the old railway bridge that used to carry the branchline from Alcester to Great Alne and beyond. The old rivet heads are quite visible in this shot. It is always a good place to have a look for birds & Squirrels as some of the dog walkers put down bird seed etc.

Kingfisher flight

Well this should be interesting, I will be intrigued to hear peoples views on this pic, but first off all I will explain how it came about. I have had a few days off so I managed to get out with the camera a bit, nothing much was happening on the reserve, but while on the way back home I heard the high pitched peep of a Kingfisher as it shot past me downstream. So I waited there hoping it would come back the other way, sure enough after a little while it flashed past again. This was the resulting shot, as I just could not pan fast enough to keep up with it. At first I just disregarded this shot as rubbish, but after looking at it again on the computer and boosting the contrast a little I began to think again,as this was actually just as I saw it, a vibrant flash of blue. So I thought I would post it and see if people liked it or loathed it.

House Sparrows

I have been looking through some old files on my computer, trying to organise my pics a little better, and I came across this file which for some reason I had not used. I think the image is good enough to show, so have decided to include it. I know it is a only a pic of House Sparrows, but according to the R.S.P.B.they are becoming much less common, Some research suggests that there has been as much as a 50 per cent decline since 1990. So we should enjoy them while we can!.

Swan

First post for ages, due to job moving to another branch, plus having wisdom teeth removed (not to be recommended) Lol. So just to get things moving again a quick pic taken of a Swan on the River Arrow just outside Alcester.