After yet another successful year on the Odds & Sods thread, initially started I think by Hazy, it might be wise to kickstart the 2023 thread off.
Thank you to those who have contributed to last years thread, and there has been very interesting odds and sods in "Odds & Sods 2022" that aren't enough to place into a dedicated thread, which you can look back on the following link:
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/278729/odds-sods-2022/1417300?pifragment-4285=76#pifragment-4285=1
What better for me, and as yet, I've not ventured far, ewe know what I mean, with this lassie on Baddesley Clinton estate yesterday....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Thanks BD, I was please quite low light :)
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
some hedgerow birdies. Spotted flycatcher, whitethroat and our little friend the ChiffChaff
Like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, flight after flight of Canada geese came winging over me to land in Coelbrook lake (north).
I could only get aft shots, as they were obscured by trees until they flew over me.
Then they started to land.
And still they kept coming.
And landing
With a vast lake available to them, they chose to land on top of each other.
This was a small fraction of the number of birds landing.
A rough estimate is 75 to 100 birds, all landing within a couple of minutes. Air Traffic Controllers nightmare.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
Birch Polypore Fungus:
Heron (and snack):
Oystercatcher:
I thought the first one was the Red Arrows Angus ...
Another flyby today....weather was horrible aswell
Numbers are creeping up....71 this time