Greeting Cards

I have recently ordered some more Greeting Cards and thought the images could appear here too.

Green Woodpecker

It was a delight to see a Green Woodpecker in the garden this morning.   I haven't seen one here for many months.

Bottisham Lock

A lovely windless, sunny morning and a few birds seen.   It was good to see the polo ponies being exercised and my being able to undertake a longer walk than when Boo and I were last there.   What delighted me was seeing some Swallows which have been so few in number this year.   They are presumably nesting at the pumping station but they didn't take kindly to a Kestrel sitting on the roof of 'their' building!   A Banded Demoiselle sat quietly for a while.   These cygnets are too large now to be thinking about taking a ride on a parent's back.  Not sure about the monochrome rendering of a Grey Heron.....

Research Park - Birds

Not that good a selection of birds this morning, but worthy of record.   I think it was a Grey Wagtail on potato plants, a Yellowhammer, an Oystercatcher and some adult Canada Geese among King Cups which would appear not to be breeding this year.

Research Park

There had been quite a lot of rain overnight which had damaged some of the large petalled flowers.   I was particularly taken with the different impressions it was possible to capture of Field Poppy.   The Dog Rose and Flag Iris had withstood the rain damage better.

Otto

I have a 4/5 month old puppy called Otto staying for the weekend and this morning we went off to Wicken Fen for a walk.   If the rest of the weekend goes well, I expect to have him staying for a little fortnight in August while his owners/my neighbours go away.   The fourth image has been edited from the third one.

Research Park

I have had two great holidays in May - Mallorca and Cuenca, Spain.   All those images have yet to be processed and I shall be putting them into books when the time comes!   I shall endeavour to get some posted here too.

Boo has died so I haven't been getting out with a dog(s) for morning walks for a while now, but took myself off to follow a camera around the fields near the Research Park yesterday morning.   How quickly one gets out of the routine of taking photographs with a telephoto lens!   Still, I hope to include a morning walk into my routine more, and enjoyed joining a neighbour taking their 4 month old black labrador puppy for a walk this morning - images to follow all being well!

Here is some wildlife which has become 'typical' of walks round these fields.   I think the Warbler with plenty of food in its mouth is a Willow Warbler, and then was delighted to see the Hare stopping momentarily during a run between rows of potatoes.   A Crow found 'bugs' to eat on the potato field, and this family of Greylag geese and goslings was taking risks as plenty of cars were driving onto the Research Park.

Horses

Two large collections of horses used for different purposes - and left out in the open overnight.......

More species at Snettisham

It would have been lovely to have seen some Avocet close enough to have photographed them, but the highlight was seeing some Egyptian Geese, two of them with a gosling, which I had never seen before!   The surprise was seeing the two adult Egyptian Geese which appeared to be the parents, having a spat.   Also, on a level with a Black-headed Gull, and what I assume was an albino Mallard.

Dawn on Easter Day

It was a special time being at Snettisham for dawn on Sunday.    No sun to see, but Knot and Oystercatchers 'swooshed' overhead as the high tide denied them feeding grounds for a few hours.    The waders came over in their tens of thousands - there were some wardens undertaking a count!