This week’s Midweek Madness Challenge from Cee Neuner (CMMC) is to pick a topic from her photo.
Her photo includes a bird on a fence and grasses. On a walk today I took a photo of a bird we had watched flying. When it landed I used the zoom facility on my camera to capture it. It was near a fence in a field on a cold bright day.
This week Cee has posted a photo from which we have to pick a topic for her midweek madness challenge (CMMC).
Just after I took the photo for last week’s CMMC (pale) there was some unusual activity in the road outside. I took a few photos through the window. A gull landed with a whole fatball/seedball in its beak. As it couldn’t swallow it whole, other birds soon arrived to share the feast!
After some heavy rain and gales the becks were flowing fast. One attracted a heron, which we noticed on three consecutive days. I have not yet discovered whether there is a zoom facility on my new phone’s camera, but I have cropped some photos to enlarge the heron. There were also three mallard drakes and a duck as well as a smaller shore bird we failed to identify. The grey wagtail I noticed eluded the camera!
We were very surprised one day as we went to look at another very full and fast-flowing beck. A small mammal was using a pipe as a bridge. From its size and the shape of its tail, we are hopeful that it was a red squirrel. They have been seen in some large gardens in this village, so that is not impossible. It vanished far too quickly for a photo!
We have also identified redshanks on the beach.
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