AROUND THE ORCHARD

AFTER GETTING PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER, I SPENT A 

DAY WANDERING AROUND A LOCAL ORCHARD.

FIELDFARES WERE QUITE NUMEROUS BUT VERY FEW REDWINGS.

MORE EXCITING THOUGH WAS THE STOAT THAT STARED AT ME 

AND THEN DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO BE PUT OFF HIS LUNCH.

FIELDFARE

FIELDFARE

BLACKCAP

BLACKCAP

SONGTHRUSH

WREN

STOAT

STOAT

STOAT

STOAT

Week-ends Birding

This image is not as sharp as I would have liked but I have included it because it is a bit different (for a Dipper). It was seeing off a rival.

Our visit to England !

We went into England (Exminster) at the weekend to visit our son and daughter-in-law and managed to get a bit of birding done at the same time. Strange goings-on up there with Cormorants on wires!! and White-headed Blackbirds.

I have never seen a Swan bathing with such force, at times on his back and almost completely submerged. It made quite a nice series of shots. Sue

Finally joined the Bittern club!

We went to Marazion on Saturday and finally caught up with the Bittern.
From then on it was all down hill, apart from the Fieldfares.
Nice to bump into Viv, we don't see him around enough. He is surely one of
Cornwall's finest birders.









Since having to cut down the Cherry tree last autumn, our garden birds have dropped substantially, however since the snow, some have been coming back to the feeders, and we have had a pair of Bullfinches visiting for the past week and on one day we had 2 pairs together. When we had the Cherry tree we were lucky to get one visit a year from Bullfinches.
Greenfinches and Siskins still seem to be thin on the ground, and no Brambling yet.

This Dunnock was taken in Duncan's Dad's garden.