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I really had very little idea what I was going to shoot for today’s Flickr 21 challenge’s theme of Love, but nature came to my rescue and Debbie came to nature’s rescue. We suddenly heard a bang on one of our windows. Looking through the window we could see a
Following on from my earlier shot of some of our local birds, here is a new shot from today of one I didn’t catch last time – the Coal Tit (Periparus ater). I’ve still to catch Goldfinches, Long Tail Tits, Woodpeckers, and the Nut Hatches that regularly visit. I’m sure
So, we have some of the same birds here in our garden in Scotland as we did down in Essex, you’ll see a few here. Robins, and a selection of Tits (Blue and Great included here) were in Dunmow as well as here in Scotland, but we also have an
Our squirrel shortly after visiting the nut hatch earlier today.
We get lots of Starlings in the garden – here’s one on the bird house roof.
Our friendly magpie is back, presumably for some more monkey nuts.
We get a good selection of birds in the garden, including Magpies who are always quite entertaining, if rather greedy, as this one demonstrates.
It’s a bit noisy this shot but I enjoyed the look this Moor Hen is giving the feather behind it…and being a little short on top myself I could relate.
We’ve had the second batch of ducklings appear over the last week or so (you can see a whole barrel load here). So here’s one of the new batch – there is now an awful load of waterfowl on Doctors Pond now, and the Mallard Ducks, Canadian Geese and Moorhens
We went for a walf through the rather lovely Hockley Woods today. Just outside Southend, it’s always surprising where you can find Sites of Special Scientific Interest, which this is one of. There were butterflies galore and I was rather kicking myself that I had left the macro lens in
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