WHAT'S BUZZING OR FLYING NEAR YOU 2018

Nowt plain aboot our Wunderful Woo, you's has beauty on the outside and it runs reet tru you ALL the way n that's the best and truest beauty and ya can't argue with that -as it's got to be true cos me Granny told me

 

Holes Bay, Poole harbour this morning.
Spotted Redshank, probably the same bird as in my recent pics as it was in the same place.


Curlew.


Dunlin, one of our smallest waders, down here on the coast they are mainly winter visitors.

 

More Winter shore birds, Studland Bay, Poole harbour.
Ringed Plovers.


Grey Plover.

 

We don't see many of these but I heard one making a racket in our yard this afternoon. The quality of the photo is not the best as the yard is very icy and dangerous to walk through, so I shot with telephoto lens. I hope it is pecking out a nest, as I would love to have it as a neighbor.

"The pileated woodpecker is a large woodpecker native to North America. This crow-sized bird normally inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific coast."

 

I hope it has come to stay @hydrogardener, it would be great to have it nest in your yard.
It is bigger than our two larger Woodpeckers here.

I tried photographing these Avocets on the river Exe estuary but the sun made the mud glisten so much that even with a little editing they still can out rubbish so I deleted nearly all of them!!

 

It kept teasing me as it was moving around the to other side of the tree each time I got into position to take a photo. :rasp:

 

We've had black birds in the conifers in all the years we've lived here but I like seeing the finches come in the summer.

Smashing close ups @wiseowl

 

Skylark

 

I've not seen a Robin in our back garden @wiseowl since we had the last bad fall of snow

 

Saw my first 2018 butterfly today. Too quick for me to take a picture

 

Hello @alana shame you couldn't catch it as the colours some times are out standing..I've not seen any here as yet