A photographic diary featuring my latest images
Tuesday 20th July 2010
River Itchen, Eastleigh
The birds are starting their moult now and are hiding in the trees, so opportunities are limited. The insects are still busy though, and I added a couple of new ones to the website, during a wander along the banks of The Itchen River.
Meadow Grasshopper
Notostira Elongata
Banded Demoiselle (male)
Banded Demoiselle (female)
Rhagonycha fulva
....and finally additional photographs of a Meadow Brown and Comma butterfly.
Wednesday 7th July 2010
West Durrington, West Sussex
What a treat, I have been trying to photograph Green Woodpeckers for several years,but until now I have always found them to be shy and elusive. However this time I found a family who regularly came to feed on the grass of a twelve acre caravan site in Sussex and whilst they were wary of humans they didn`t seem to be disturbed by the car, so most of these images were taken from the passenger seat of my vehicle.
Monday 12th July 2010
Arundel, West Sussex
Pochard
Black headed Gull
Later in the day I returned to West Durrington and spotted this Woodpecker in a tree.
Tuesday 13th July 2010
Pulbrough Brooks RSPB Reserve
Pulbrough Brooks is one of the finest RSPB sites I have visited, the staff are very friendly and helpful and the reserve itself has a very wide range of habitats and is well managed. As I wandered round I saw, Long Tailed Tits, Greenfinches, Blue Tits, Sparrows, Treecreepers, Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, Egrets, Herons, Magpies, Green Woodpeckers, a Peregrine, Rabbits, Grey squirrels, Fallow Deer, Meadow Brown and Ringlet Butterflies.
Magpie
I disturbed this Blackbird sunbathing on the path.
This Song Thrush was enjoying a bath.
Fallow Deer
Wednesday 14th July 2010
Splash Point,Seaford
There is a Kittiwake colony at splash Point who have been nesting here since 1976 after an absence of 200 years. This colony has around 700 pairs of birds which make up a quarter of all the birds breeding between Lincolnshire and Dorset. The colony is spectacular to watch and can be seen from the clifftops or from a promenade below the nesting site.
My knee wouldn`t allow me to climb above the nests so I had to content myself with photographs of the Herring Gulls near the beach.
Back at West Durrington in the afternoon, I photographed this Green Woodpecker, the spots identify it as a juvenile and the red patch below the eye indicates that it is a male.
