A photographic diary featuring my latest images
Monday 28th December 2009
Hamble River, Warsash, Hampshire
A beautiful crisp sunny day gave me the opportunity to walk off some of the Christmas excesses along the banks of the Hamble River. Many of the old favourites were there, including Brent Geese, Redshanks, Black Headed Gulls, Lapwings and Curlews. I stood and watched a large group of Wigeon take to the air, split into three seperate clouds, trace three large arcs in the sky before reforming on the ground as one. A Rock Pipit fed amongst the mud at the bottom of the wreck of a wooden hull, and a Grey Plover waded in the shallow pools left by the ebbing tide.
Wigeon
Rock Pipit
Grey Plover
Thursday 17th December 2009
Hook with Warsash Nature Reserve, Hampshire
After one of the wettest few weeks I can remember I eventually got out with the camera again and as I was making my way back to the car it began to snow! It was very cold and the wind was whipping the sea, there were several small flocks of Brent Geese and a few Redshanks feeding amongst the mud and weed on the foreshore. Stonechats were visible amongst the gorse and an Egret and Heron appeared to be sheltering from the wind amongst the reeds.
Brent geese
Redshank
Stonechat
A bird watcher told me that he had just witnessed a flock of thirty Redwings feeding on Holly berries nearby, so I left the Reserve and went in search of a new species to add to the website, unfortunately it wasn't to be and the Holly trees were devoid of berries, I guess I was too late and the birds had moved on. This Squirrel was my only other photograph, but it was good to be out with the camera again.
