"Odds & Sods" (old version) - please add to the new thread 2020 instead !

Forgot to add this to the end of my trip shapwick heath...I stopped at the river on my way home as light was so good

Nothing overly special, though the ice around the pond fountain did look ornate, along with the iced netting....

Unknown said:

Lovely photo capture and wonderful to see the storks Hazel especially the returning Black Stork which is notching up the years ! well done, wish I was there lol

Some years we search for weeks as it's very crafty & spends most of it's time in hidden ditches. Not so lucky today, went off to the town where there can be Wall-creepers on the old monuments in winter, but no sign, we only found discarded beer cans etc.

Good luck locating any Wall-creepers that are around Hazel, a lot of the time its just luck of the draw what you see but must be exceptional to see a Wall-creeper or any of the Storks; I've only seen Storks in The Netherlands when we visited friends a few years ago. Pity folks still discard their litter in the countryside :( wonder how they'd feel if their pet got tangled up in a beer can or swallowed harmful waste.

Real great to see them get along so well. Only once saw a single juvenile Black Stork.

Just for interest, I spotted this at Pennington at the beginning of December ...

I reported the ring and found out the bird had only been ringed about 10 days before in Gloucestershire. BHG's obviously like to get around!

Nice photo Nige and well spotted with the ring code, that gull was well travelled unlike one I reported a few years ago in my local area where the report came back that my BHG had travelled zero miles LOL it was also ringed pretty close to where I found it proving it was more a stationary homing pigeon than BHG  !

Chaffie learning how the sunflower heart feeder works

Great captures PB, lovely to see wing colours in such detail!