Blue tits are common in woodland and gardens birds They’re widespread and found across most of the UK.
Blue Tit.
birdwatching
River Meon by the sea.
Cattle (Belted Galloway and Highland Cattle) are on loan at the top part of Titchfield Haven Nature reserve to help maintain the pasture land. Both breeds are Scottish and are well-adapted to living on poorer soils and scrubland.
Graylag Geese heading up river with Canada’s heading down river watched by Lapwing!
A Cock Pheasant started by keeping low but soon decided he could show off his colours.
Spot the Warbler in the Bullrushes.
Long-tailed Tit.
In the garden,
View from a window of a Collared Dove.
A small pigeon found on farmland and in woodland, parks and gardens across the UK they 1st bred in the 1950s, since their numbers have increased and the collared dove is now one of our most familiar garden birds. Collared doves feed on seeds and grain on the ground and are usually seen singularly or in pairs, although small flocks may form where there is enough food. The RSPB records there are now breeding:810,000 pairs across the UK.
Brent.
Our smallest goose, around the same size as a mallard duck the brent goose spends the winter feeding on vegetation such as eelgrass in our estuaries and grazing in coastal fields. They arrive in the UK in large numbers in autumn and leave for the long journey back to Arctic Russia in early February. Numbers are over 100,000 birds. These birds were on the estuary of Hamble River.
Natural world.
Spotted this Marsh Tit today in the New Forest with a deformed/damaged lower bill. Feeding well and appeared to be living well despite the disability,
2023 the start of a New Year.
My first full post of the New Year records a morning around Eyworth Pond in the New Forest. All the usual local birds give a splash of colour on another dull day. Also, a few young Fallow deer were on the move on the edge of the woodland.
“A” Snipe
A Snipe or Two!
Dull end to the year.
The last bird-watching trip of 2022. A walk around Titchfield Haven in the wind and rain on a really dull morning. Not good for taking photographs with slow shutter speeds and poor colours due to the conditions. Although a nice walk around with few other people venturing out.
A Marsh Harrier hunting the small waders.
The Mash Harrier has a wingspan of about 4 feet. There are only about 600 pairs in the UK. This bird is a male. (the female has a creamy head).
High numbers of Common Snipe were on the ponds today. In the UK some 66,500 pairs are present in the breading season however these numbers increase to 1.1 million birds during our winter months.
As well as the Snipe Lapwing numbers also increase during the Winter to some 635,000 birds.
See you next year.
Shake rattle and roll.
Little Egret has a shake after half an hour of fishing.
Looking down on you,
#Wordless Wednesday
Continued Reflections from my World. 