Lee Valley

Lee Valley Park - we went to Chesthunt, about an hour's travel from home. Yesterday was a good day. In fact, one of my best field day-outs. We were blessed with good, sunny weather, a rare occurance in this drab winter season.

Strange as it may sound, barely 5% of my British bird photos are of passerines. This trip added many more record shots, plus 11 new species to my life list. Highlights - two of Britain's rarest birds the Great Bittern and Common Kingfisher, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Fieldfare, Redwing, Common kestrel, Long-tailed tit and Chaffinch (the latter are common garden birds but I haven't been seeing much of those).

The otters make their home there but we'll have to be lucky to see those.

The good/better/decent:

European robin (skinny one)

European robin (fat one)

Blue tit

Great tit

Swans in lake

Not-so-good/record shots:

Kamikaze?

Female blackbird with worm

Great bittern

Chaffinch

Common kestrel

Green woodpecker

Common kingfisher

Fieldfare

Long-tailed tit

posted by Husky @ 2/26/2006 05:20:00 PM  |