Sedge Warblers at Wicken Fen

Despite the wind, it was good to photograph some Sedge Warblers in the reeds.    Busy backgrounds to the images, but then that is their habitat.   The last image reminded me of a Pole Vaulter coming down the runway carrying its pole before take off!

Birds at Impington Lake

These images of an adult Great Crested Grebe feeding its young show what a challenging task it is catch and despatch a Signal Crayfish!   I don't know what happened to the crayfish, but during its demise, there were bits of flesh coming off it which were devoured by the fledged grebes.

It was fun to watch a Green Finch feeding off the blossom of either Hawthorn or May.

A couple of days I had seen a large flock of Long Tailed Tits.   Adults were feeding young, but when I was there with a camera there were few to be seen.   A moral there!

Wrens at Wicken Fen

Having recently bought a telephoto lens, I'm having great fun trying it out and I hope to become friends with it before too long.   I don't know how many images I took on two visits to Wicken Fen to get something presentable!    I'm not sure either which of these images best captures a Wren.

Clayhithe

Having not used the beginning of the year as an incentive to submit to this blog on a regular basis, nor my clocking up another year, I'll endeavour to use the start of the new Camera Club year as the prompt to get going yet again!

Why would four cruisers of the same colour and with the same coloured fenders moor one behind the other?!

The Great Crested Grebes didn't appear to have a nest or young but did look as though they might start a courtship dance.   They certainly seemed interested in one another.   The Chaffinch didn't seem to have found a comfortable perch, and the Sedge Warbler persisted in singing from behind a twig.   I shall include images shortly which deploy my new lens.