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
