What's Buzzing or Flying near you today... 2015

Little Egret, River Axe, Devon

 

Any Avocets down there?

 

Saw lots of Godwits, but no Avocets.

 

Wetlands along the River Severn at Slimbridge

This peregrine falcon was resting on a piece of drift wood for quite a few minutes till crows came to dive-bomb it, it ducked and dodged for a while then gave up and flew off






Greylag geese were braking hard for landing. In the distance is a flock a barnacle geese


Zoom in on barnacle geese


There were 4 or 5 cranes near the river as well

 

Beautiful shots of the Peregrine and Cranes @HsuH. Barnacles only turn up here in ones and twos.

Some Long Tailed Tits came by this morning and actually stopped for a while, very irregular visitors as is the out of focus Coal Tit behind them.

 

Flying but a long way away! The first (female) Hen Harrier has arrived here at Middlebere/Arne, we may get two.
There may be a bit of sparing going on this Winter as this is the Marsh Harriers territory and there are more of them!




A flock of 50+ Fieldfares were along the path.




Still a few Dragonflies and Red Admirals around and lots of Bees and Flies on the Ivy flowers.

 

@Scrungee if I remember rightly, you have had better views of Hen Harriers than me, not jealous off course!!
With some of the few left in the UK being deliberately poisoned it's a wonder there are any left. It could soon be the end as a breeding bird here.

 

A few years ago we were watching one (male) on a local shooting estate, it momentarily went out of view, heard a couple of shotgun blasts (there was no shoot that day) and it didn't reappear, that shoot has now finished, so hopefully what we suspected will not happen again.

There's usually a few North Eastern European migrants hanging around by now, but have only seen one.

 

A crow landed on this BMW's roof with a discarded packet of crisps, it managed to shake loads of crumbs out and was joined by another 2 crows who were busy pecking at the crumbs on the roof, think it might need it's roof resprayed.