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Often we don't have enough photos to create a full thread so thought I'd start an Odds & Sods thread where you may want to add a pic or two when you don't have enough for their own thread . Feel free to add your rogues gallery here !
I only had a couple of pics today, one a Treecreeper and the other a very hacked off looking Great Egret huddled against the reeds trying to keep warm !
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Regards, Hazel
There were quite a few goldfinches flying around, and this one decided to stop on our TV aerial.
Mike
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Very nice pictures everyone, got a free day here seeing its going to be wet so will get some of my pictures ready to upload seeing I have a good connection now.
Jim
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A few more from a Sunday in the garden, starting with a cheeky grey squirrel
and a sparrow picking seed up from the patio
Many thanks to all contributors to this thread--lovely pics, all!
Kind regards, Ann
Not a face on one but I liked it.
a couple of Linnet pics taken near Seahouses
and a pied wagtail
I was waiting for Dragons to settle and spotted these in the shallows instead. I'm not sure if they count as odds or sods, but probably both! It was one of several but possibly my first wild Leech.
I know they don't all bite people and in this case I hope not because it was a good 3-4" long so you'd lose half a pint!
Then, by the canal, I got this little fish … sunbathing on a lily pad! The fry of something I would imagine.
I was a little concerned by the closeness of the family of Canada's - taken with the 105mm Macro.
But then I realised it wasn't hissing at me. It was having a go at the dog and its walker behind me! It was perfectly happy to let me photograph the youngsters it had been protecting
These Oystercatchers must be late starters. They've been around for a while but no sign of a nest or youngsters before now.
It was a full mating … which apparently makes you hungry because they both started feeding immediately after
"Like my impression of a turnstone?"
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lovely photos Nigel; I wonder if the Oycs chicks were predated and they started over ? love the hissing Goose !
Unknown said: I wonder if the Oycs chicks were predated and they started over ?
I'm not aware of anyone spotting chicks so if this a second attempt then they must have lost them at the egg stage. I think they're just late or maybe first timers and this won't be a successful/serious attempt but you never know. It will be interesting to see if anything does come of it.
Unknown said: I was waiting for Dragons to settle and spotted these in the shallows instead. I'm not sure if they count as odds or sods, but probably both! It was one of several but possibly my first wild Leech. It was a full mating … which apparently makes you hungry because they both started feeding immediately after
I had to chuckle when I saw this, I had a similar show from a pair of oyster catchers at Conwy. What seemed to be a full mooning, turned out to be a mating session!
See https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/community/chat/f/2542/p/113756/1195691.aspx#1195691
Brilliant photos Nigel