Spring in Northchurch

A very pleasant walk back from taking Harry to Nursery - first sighting this year of a
COMMON WHITETHROAT 

COMMON WHITETHROAT on the canal

COMMON TERN on the canal

Moorhen

Mallard and chick

GOLDCREST on Granville Road

Chinnor BOP

A visit to my parents - always an amazing display of RED KITE and also a SPARROWHAWK. Trying out my new Lumix camera

Red Kite 

SPARROWHAWK

Waxwings in Northchurch

Thanks to a notification on Facebook from Fred and timely updates from Dave , I managed to pop into the graveyard up the hill out of Northchurch at lunchtime.
4 very accommodating WAXWING were present - I managed to get pretty close as they dropped down from a higher branch to feed on the berries.
Here's a collection of some shots I managed to get

Crossbills at Wendover

A family stroll through Wendover (Hale entrance) on a lovely Sunday morning brought a surprising view of stunning CROSSBILLS - both male and female.
No camera so only a very poor phone shot!

Fozzies at Wendover

Playing the Gruffalo with Harry

 A ...... Crossbill! Just see the red of the male

Granville Garden - first day of 2019

A quiet start to 2019 in Granville garden - a clean up of the bird feeders which have been very quiet may help...
Sightings today:
RED KITE, HERRING GULL, MAGPIE, WOOD PIGEON, LONG TAILED TIT, BLACKBIRD 

Year List at 19 (That's a fifth of the total for the whole of last year!!!) 
Granville Garden at 6

New Years Day trip to College Lake (CAMERA FAIL!)

The Foster tradition of a trip to College Lake continues.... unfortunately the big zoomy relatively lightweight camera decided to stop working!

A pretty quiet reservoir with the following sightings

TUFTED DUCK, MUTE SWAN, MOORHEN, COOT, GADWALL, WIGEON, BLACKBIRD, STARLING, CARRION CROW, LAPWING, GREY HERON, MALLARD, SHOVELER, CORMORANT, GOLDFINCH, KESTREL & BUZZARD

A view of the lake on the way round

Panoramic view of College Lake 

Fozzies at College Lake

A hundred or so Lapwings (taken from phone!) 

Christmas Eve at Staveley, Yorkshire

A beautiful day for a walk through Staveley Nature Reserve, and a few year ticks to boot - WATER RAIL, TREE SPARROW, MARSH/WILLOW TIT & GOLDENEYE
This brings the year list up to 100 - the lowest count so far on record but squeezed over to three figures!

Northern family trip to the nature reserve

Great tit

Tree Sparrow

Reed Bunting

Goldeneye