Getting bored yet …

… of same old same old pics?

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Monday 16th September

Pond and canal is all.

Can look so miserable, herons. Grebe chicks and grebe parent with fish. Narrowboat “Hope” entering Morse lock … and a Speckled wood to finish the day.

Tuesday 17th

Same again:

Heron in the mallards’ patch

Who nicked the heron’s neck?

Buggerin’ …

50 shades of blue

… off.

Swan being photogenic

Robin just missing being a silhouette

Number two bird – heron in an unusual place and subsequently buggerin’ off. A swan doing what swans do best – posing, and a robin against the sky. Finally just a feather on the footpath.

When it’s a toss-up …

… which is bigger – the fish or the head …

…head, it can be tricky

Shaking down the plumage

Grebes, more grebes and still more grebes.

18th – Wednesday

Speckled wood.

Small white

SMall white encore

Flying high

Arboreal moorhens

Grebe shaking after a dive

Grebe chicks under cover

Sky over Saint Anne’s

Three speckled woods. Two mall whites. A pair of moorhens up a tree. A kestrel at a distance, a grebe shaking off after a dive and four grebe chicks hiding under cover of reeds. The sky over Saint Anne’s church.

Thursday 19th

Swallows …

… canal

… over …

… the …

…Rugby field,

And over the …

Rather late swallows fattening up over the rugby field. These birds move so fast and so erratically that for every picture fit to use, the shutter must have been operated fifty times.

 
 

Yellow and red

Grebes

Kestrel being buzzed by magpies.

Kestrel on the hunt

Misery !

Colours, grebes, parent and child. This kestrel was being mobbed by a crowd of magpies, only managed to catch one and that was below it. A kestrel hovering on the hunt. It was mizzling so the heron was more miserable than usual.

Friday 20th September

Parent and child

Cruising

Hunting

Immaculate

Spider

Going

Coming

Coming

Going

Showing off and unimpressed

Gimpy leg mallard

Chicks

Two kestrels at once

Kestrel

Grebes, gulls, a spider, a heron several times. Mallards, including one with a gimpy leg and a couple of moorhen chicks at the shopping centre. Lastly a pair of kestrels and the one that stayed to patrol the canal.