Pennington Flash

Back to a bit of normality with this post and back to birds.

As much as I like photographing all sorts of things its birds that really do it for me and there's no better feeling when you go through your images back at home and you find that really nice shot you hoped for.

I didn't get that perfect shot today, but considering the little light we had I'm pleased with the results.

First pics are a Blue tit..

Second set of shots are a Robin..

And now the main reason that I went to Pennington Flash which was to photograph Bullfinch as I haven't got that shot that I really want, and still haven't, great excuse to go back again on a nicer day.

Other birds seen today where Magpie (pic below), Greenfinch (pic below) and Marsh Tit which to the best of my ability I just couldn't get a photo, I do have a nice set of twig photos if anyones interested :)

All photo's taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

You can click on any image to view the whole set in lightbox.

Hope you liked the photo's.

Mike.

Pennington Flash

The weather was pretty dismal this morning, but wanted to get out after being stuck in work all week, typical nice weather all week and rain on the weekend.

We decided on Pennington Flash a free nature reserve which has 4 main hides and a number of viewing points and made up of large lakes and woodland areas.

You can see one of the lakes below:

There is also a number of carving done in old tree stumps and posts, the photo below shows a woodpecker, but there is also a hedgehog and other carvings there.

Its a great place for waterfowl, however the Bunting Hide is the one I like to spend the most time in. It mainly has garden birds, today we saw, GS Woodpecker, Brambling, Greenfinch, Reed Bunting, Long Tailed Tits, Bluetits and Robins you can see pics of all these birds HERE in my gallery.

I have a couple of pictures from your more common garden visitors, Blue Tit & Robin.

And a couple of your not so common visitors Bullfinch. You can really see the difference in these birds between male & female, the male is first. You may think I have made the female bullfinch shot really grey, but this is how they look.

All photos taken 08/03/2008.