My World Tuesday - Martin Mere

This is my local nature reserve / WWT Martin Mere that I visit regularly, at the moment there are thousands of swans, geese and ducks from all over the world.

This is a shot of one of the hides taken late afternoon, where you can sit and watch all the wildlife in comfort.

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You can see some of the birds there in my previous 2 posts.

Photo taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

Good ol Mallard

Not a great deal to post at the moment as I'm still not getting out, hopefully over the next week or so I will have something to post, for now here's a shot of a Mallard Duck.

Not something I usually photograph with them being so common, but I liked this shot and hope you do too.

Photo taken with a Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm.

New arrivals

We had a quick trip to Martin Mere this afternoon to check out if the geese had started to come in, I'm glad to say there are thousands, mainly Pink Footed Geese and you could see them coming in far off in the distance.

I may have said it before, but I will try and video them coming in, the sound is amazing and quite relaxing.

Autumn watch is normally filmed at Martin Mere, but sadly this year they are trying somewhere new.

Another new arrival that surprised me this morning was this Siskin, it was sat on the feeder tree along with 7 or 8 Goldfinches, I don't recall seeing them here this time of year.

All photos taken 28/09/2008 with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm.

Afternoon at the Mere

Martin Mere is my local WWT and as a member I can visit as much as I like and I tend to go there as much as possible, however I haven't been to Martin Mere for a few weeks now, mainly due to the cold wet weather which always seems to be 10x colder there.

So this afternoon armed with woolly hat and camera decided to go.

1st birds we saw from the Swanlink hide where the Whooper swans, there must hundreds if not thousands, Shellducks and Greylag Geese which where constantly taking off from the water.

Here are a couple of shots of the Geese and a Shellduck.


After staying in the Swanlink hide for a while we moved down to the Janet Kear hide where there are a few feeders and mainly garden birds visit.

I was really pleased when we got there, not only was it a bit warmer in this hide but the tree in front of the hide had Reed Buntings in it, here are a couple of shots of the male and female, the male has the dark head, the female is a beautiful golden brown.


And whilst where on the male and female theme, I got a couple of shots of chaffinches which I don't have many of, the male looks quite pink, here they are.

And my post wouldn't be the same without a photo from my Garden so here's a Coal Tit from this morning when the sun was out.
All photos taken 01/03/2008.