Same bird at the same spot, - Funny how things turn out. I spotted this Dunock again today on the same log as last week but the weather was duller today just had to take some more pictures of this often underrated and overlooked sparrow.
At Peel Common roundabout between Lee-on-the-Solent and the naval base HMS Collingwood. This is a statue of Daedalus standing eight metres high on the grounds of what used to be the Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent, also known as HMS Daedalus.
In Greek mythology. Daedalus constructed wings for his son, Icarus, from feathers of various sizes, thread, and beeswax – he shaped them to resemble a bird’s wings. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the sun’s heat would melt the beeswax holding his feathers together, Icarus disobeyed his father and began to soar upward toward the sun. Without warning, the sun melted the wax and they fell off. Icarus kept flapping his “wings”. But he realized he had no feathers left. He was only flapping his featherless arms. The feathers fell like snowflakes, and down, down, and down he went to this death into the sea.
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In the sun of a Friday morning, the local Paraketts were very noisy and active – they seemed to be trying to make a hole in one of the trees. I looked last year for a nest site without luck, so I hope this may be a place to watch as we move into the nesting season in a few months.
Watched by the male bird the female spent some time pulling off bits of wood and dropping them.
The Common Raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black bird. It is massive – the biggest member of the crow family. This lone bird was using a dead tree as an observation post so hence I could not get very close across the open heathland.
These pictures are cropped in so much more grainy than I would have liked. Spotted New Forest.
#Wordless Wednesday
Nice to see a Spoonbill at Titchfield Haven this morning perhaps one from the group of 12 I saw at Pennington Marshes a few weeks ago blown of course in last night’s storm.
A Magpie hiding acorns for harder times.
Frozen pond in the New Forest.
Chinook ZK561 Lee on Solent airport this afternoon 17th Jan 2024. Having taken the Photographs of the Starlings in a car park on the seafront at Lee on Solent and watched a Chinook heading down Southampton Water to wards the airport I decided to pop into the car park on the way home to see if I could get a closer look at the helicopter as I got out of the van it was taking off but managed to get some quick pictures.
Continued Reflections from my World. 