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
Have lots of photos to post just getting round to selecting a few.
Well captured Mr. Kes. I love the deer, but I think the last one is my fave with it's beak open. Nothing from me at the moment, it's just strong wind and rain out ...
Little Grebe in the rain caught a fish.
Some photo's from today
My lifer Black Throated Diver
And a pochard at the same place
And a quick look down the road to see the kingfisher, getting dark so had to use a lot of editing to sort the lighting!
Regards
Benji
Went back to see the kingfisher - KINGFISHER OVERLOAD!
'Oi you, get lost,your ruining my fishing!'
Don't think I've seen the inside of a kingfishers beak before!
It caught a fish before flying off
Had to put the shutter speed down to 1/200 second, but well worth it!
Left horse saying to right horse: 'Look, mate, I don't care what your owners says, you're going the wrong way.'
This Little White Egrets in England generally wont let you within 75 yards of them before flying off. This one, in Villa Borghese park, was on the edge of a pond, right next to a footpath. It was so still I thought it was a statue.
The thing was so tame it allowed me within 10 feet of it, and even then it wasn't too fussed. Just carried on hunting.
Lots of these around.
The shape of things to come in blighty - well, Finchampstead. Currently we have about two screeching around the place, mostly nearer Wokingham. They are all over the place in Rome, and bloody noisy they are too. I suppose you get used to the racket they make, after a while. May even miss their incessant screeching if you went to a place for a while where there were none. These three were house hunting - in November!
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
Moorland stonechat yesterday at sunrise.