Wheatear - Visiting the Local Grave Yard

Wheatear Roaming the Local Church Yard

Little Owl (Athene noctua)

A rather alert Little Owl,

Very Poor image quality but it was at long range with x2 Extender

A Sequence of a Hobby Catching Dragonflies over a Local Pool

Gotcha Mr Dragonfly!!

Missed !!!

Head Spin, Missed Again!!

Finally Resting after all the Action, the Hobby used this perch to Dismember the wings off the dragonflies.

Grey Wagtail ( Motacilla cinerea )

Grey Wagtail Posing for a Picture by a Local Stream

A Saturday Walk on the Reserve

Sarah and I decided to go for a walk to the Nature Reserve on a fine September Saturday, although we only saw limited wildlife it was great to get out and about, the images below are just a few things we saw.

I think the Dragonfly is a Ruddy but it could also be a Common Darter??

A Common Lizard ( Lacerta vivipara )

Common Darter ( Sympetrum sanguineum )

Yellow Wagtail ( Motacilla flava )

A Selection of September Dragonflies - Damselfly's

Broad-Bodied-Chaser ( Libellula depressa )

A Lovely hot September day at Windmill Farm Nature Reserve, Dragonfly pools.
Spent a very hard hour trying to photograph these with a telephone lens not a Macro, next time i must take my macro lens.
Oh well i did manage to photograph several SparrowHawks getting mobbed my Hirundines!! 

Maybe a Couple of Ruddy or Common darters, HELP??

Emperor DragonFly ( Anax imperator )

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A Spider, LOL Anybody???

Bullfinch Juv (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Bullfinch Juv feeding on my Rowan Berries this Morning, there was a pair but one flew!! Nice to see.

Exmoor Wildlife

A Rather Handsome chap

Wheater On Dunkery Beacon

Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

Kestrels having a Fight on Exmoor, talons were locked for quite a time until one gave up and flew off

Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

Kestrel Preps for take Off!!

Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Black headed Gull, Coming into Land

Avocets (Recurvirostra avosetta)

What an Amazing Bird, so elegant and the Bill is so well equipped for the Job!

Badger (Meles meles)

One of My Local badgers over my Garden Wall, he or she is looking for some peanuts or maybe earthworms , such a beautiful animal how could we possibly cull them???

Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)

Peregrine Falcon, Patrolling the Sky's!!

Short Eared Owl (Asio flammeus)

A Short-Eared Owl Quartering the Field Margins in search of Prey!!

Tawny Owl ( Strix Aluco )

A Young Tawny Hiding Away, Looking Sleepy!!

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Peregrine Falcon
Thats was a long way down!! 

Cornish Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyyrrhocorax)

A Selection of Birds from the RNBWS Weekend at Portland

A Selection of Bird Life from the Royal Naval Bird Watching Society weekend at the Portland Bird Observatory. On the Saturday we logged 96 Bird Species in eight hours, not bad going!!
   
      From the Top, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine Falcon, Pied Flycatcher, Glossy Ibis, Redstart...

Cornish Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyyrrhocorax)

A Lone Chough posing for the Camera, cheers Fella!!

The Lizard Peninsular Chough's feeding in there usual manner!! 

Raven ( Corvus Corax )

An Early Morning Pair of Raven's at Predannack Cliffs

A Selection of the Finch Family from my Garden!!

Goldfinch ( Carduelis carduelis )

Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)

Bullfinch ( Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

Brambling (Frigilla montifringilla)

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Linnet (Carduelis cannabina)

Some Easter Weekend Shots!!

A wandering Gannet Just Offshore

A Very curious ChiffChaff who was rather interested in watching me!!

The First Fledged bird of the year a Song Thrush