Pre-Dawn, still dark outside, and, twas a very cold, raw morning......
In plenty good time to capture the starlings morning murmuration.....
Click HERE to watch the video on my Flickr pages.
Sunrise
The morning sun casting its orange glow over the reedbeds, where earlier the starlings had been roosting.
Greylag geese, catching the orange glow of the morning sun, off for their breakie, the pools were still quite frozen at this time, though the thaw had slowly started....
An oak tree alongside the path, was hosting lots of long tail tits.....
Click on the next and following images, look at the beak, this one had almost swallowed an insect, you can just the the last of the insects legs....
Breakie, gone....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Cin J
SnappyMac said:That's a tad cold Mike... I like the sequence of Long-tailed Tit photo's :)
Thank you.
I think there were around a dozen plus on the oak tree, it was festooned with them, and a pleasure to see.
Talking of Baltic, Easter 2013!
and it was a tad windy......
and I was toasty....
The next was the day before, about 15km SW from the pic above, between Sheffield and Manchester.....
Germain said:That temp photo actually made me shiver! I seem have your fluffy tennis ball siblings bouncing around the garden - must be the weather.
I'm happy to share the LTT's, though I think the weather had brought them out across the UK.
Unknown said:Very nice set of pics thank you.
Thank you William, and you're welcome.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Lynn L said:Nice capture of the murmuration and photos. Lovely cutie lollypops. What time were you there?
Arrived on site around 06:15 and probably got into the hide around 06:40. The starlings took flight around 07:40, sunrise was 08:05.
The early arrival allows for setting up, flask with hot choccie, placed quietly on the counter, camera tripod setup and gorillapod also setup on the counter in the hide.
You'd be astounded how active waterfowl is that early in the morning, and so dark!
If you've been watching Winterwatch Ep3, when the thermal camera was following the avocets at dark, wading and feeding in the water as if it was daylight. So fascinating nature is.