A few snaps

Well sooner than I thought, I spent a few hours in the garden tidying up and cutting back some of the larger plants that went a bit mad through the summer.

Seed feeders filled and good numbers of Tits are visiting, the odd Goldfinch appears every now and again, but more importantly my fave bird is still visiting the Nuthatch, no shots of them today, but we had 2 on the fence this morning.

Here are a couple of bird shots I got today, 1st is a Goldfinch and secondly a Coal tit.

And one from a walk during the summer, which I just like.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

Hope you liked the shots.

Until next time and fingers crossed it won't as long next time.

Mike.

Pics at last

Finally a few photos to post, here's some from this afternoon, just the usual Long Tailed Tit, Coal Tit and Goldfinch all shot at ISO800 and in my garden.

Hope you like the shots.

Thanks to everyone who keeps dropping by and I hope you all have a great Christmas and happy new year. Mike.

Dull Garden

Birds have been few and far between in my garden lately, today wasn't much different.

Just the occasional Goldfinch and Coaltit, here are a couple of shots I managed in the few minutes of decent light we had this morning, hope you like them.

Pic of the month October to follow soon.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

Coal and Long Tailed

Not a bad day in the garden today, we've had all the Tits, Coal, Blue, Great and Long Tailed.

Here are a few shot of the Coal Tit I managed to get, hope you like them.

To see more of my Coal Tit shots click HERE and the juveniles click HERE.

For all the Tit family click HERE and click into the images.


This one was a bit more of a surprise I haven't seen these in my garden for a year or so and it landed just before I was about to put fresh food out so it might not come back, fingers crossed it will.

To see more Long Tailed Tit shots click HERE.


All photos taken 14/09/2008 with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm.

Today's visitors

I can't tell you how long I have waited over the past few days to try and catch this little fella, pretty much like the adult they are on and off the feeders and don't hang around for very long.

Last year we had approx 5 young Coal tits around the feeders and the garden, this year sadly this is the only one I have seen so far.

Hope you like the shots of him ..

Whilst in wait I couldn't resist photographing the other birds that where around, the following shots are a selection of finches.

1st is a Goldfinch, 2nd Greenfinch and finally a Chaffinch.

I think I will try to get out again so I can post a bit more variety. so I don't get too repetitive.

All photos taken 22/06/2008.

Garden Visitors

I thought today I would try and take a photo of every type of bird that visits my garden, they are as follows:

Coal Tit:
Blue Tit:
Greater Spotted Woodpecker:
Greenfinch:

And I had a few others which didn't come as close: Brambling, Collared Dove & Wood Pigeon.
























We also had Siskins but I'm sure you've all seen enough of those.

All photos taken 10/02/08.

The Usual

Just the usual garden visitors today i'm afraid, I had originally set out to go and photo some WADERS at Crosby beach, but the sea was too far in and the wind was unbelievably strong and cold.

I sat out in the garden for about half an hour or so until I got too cold.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day down the coast.

Here are the shots I managed to get:

1st Siskin was way up high in the tree so I was please with how this turned out.


This Coal Tit just wouln't move away from the twig sticking up, it visited a few time and landed in the same spot every time.

Lunch time madness

Bird feeders are mad at the moment, I feel like I am being eaten out of house and home, but on the other hand I just love it.

I decided to go to our local pet shop and stop messing around so I bought a 22kg sack of sunflower hearts and so far my garden has gone crazy, I am sure for every m² of my tiny garden it must be the busiest nature spot in the Northwest (well I think so anyway).

Here are a few shot I got today when I popped home at lunch.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

My Garden

Whilst I am hoping this blog will be of the local area beauty spots and wildlife, I will also be entering a lot of posts about my garden.

Although it is only about 8 mtrs square we back on to a large woodland area and from that we get a large array of birds and other wildlife.

We have Grey squirrels that visit us daily, bats that fly overhead, a frog in our very small pond and occasionally see a mouse shooting in and out from under the fence and once had an hedgehog, but haven't seen it since.

I have compiled a list of the bird sightings and hopefully over time will try and post pictures of each one, here are a few I have taken so far.

Robin: using Sigma 170-500mm lens.

Coal Tit: using Nikkor 70-300mm lens.

Mistle Thrush: using Nikkor 70-300mm lens.

All photos are taken using a Nikon D70 with either Nikkor 70-300mm or Sigma 170-500mm.