Little Grebe

[muckshifter]

If anybody is interested ... got a couple of pics of a Little Grebe today.

It popped out of the reed bed just in front of us ... by the time I got me camera ready, the little bugger was off fishing, in other words, it spent most of the time under water, it took me a few secs to find it again and snap another quick shot ... boy, they can stay under for a long time. Only got the two pics posted that were of any use.

Also, some more shots of the resident Great Crested Grebes ... will keep you posted on this pair, especially when the male gets his Summer plumage.

Pretty poor weather today, even if the sun did pop his head out, not much was on the water ... the birds had the right idea, take the day off & hide.

Never got a glimpse of the of the King Fisher today, but we now know there is a resident Greater Spotted Woodpecker here as well as at Martin Mere.
Sorry, no pic, too damn quick for me.

Oh, also seen my first real close-up of a very pretty bird, a Siskin.

We saw most of the resident common garden birds ... Black bird, Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Caffinch, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Robin, Reed Bunting, even a house sparrow


More to come ...

 

[Taffycat]

Oh well done Mucks, they are lovely photos, you must have needed a very speedy "trigger finger" to get the Little Grebe

Lovely to have seen a siskin too they usually appear on our bird-feeders sometime during early spring, usually mingling with their chums the greenfinches such pretty little things aren't they?

Looks like you are getting on well with your new camera

 

[Abarbarian]

Oh well done Mucks, they are lovely photos, you must have needed a very speedy "trigger finger" to get the Little Grebe

Thats why they are called twitchers Taffycat .
We had a grey crane/heron , I can never remember which it is , standing on one leg at the edge of one of the new mini lakes that have appeared in the field behind me today . It was only about 50 feet away and stayed there for ages , was too wet to take pics though .

 

[floppybootstomp]

Nice pix Mucks

 

[itsme]

Itchy trigger fingertip aye mucks drive you Quackers

Nice pics Sir