Great Tits

In our neighbour's garden on a Silver birch tree they have a bird box, which for a few years have been used by Great Tits to nest. They are nesting again this year and when one of the adults goes in to feed them you can hear the babies! its so cute, can't wait for them to fledge. Here is a pic of one of the adults coming out of the house:

Holiday

From the 24th March till today i was on holiday in Devon. We had fantastic weather and saw quite a lot of wildlife:

Had a few visitors to outside our caravan (aided by the peanut feeder we put up)

Here's a Great tit taking a whole peanut.









As well as the Great Tit there were two Blue Tits that visited but only ate from the feeder.

Another visitor after the peanuts was a crow, they are quite pretty up close.










And of course a squirrel, who at one point probably would have come in to the caravan had there been peanuts on the floor.


















This morning as we were packing a Jay was spotted in a near by tree but didn't come closer so i couldn't get a better photo.

The caravan site had a few lakes which had some ducks on that i had not seen before, Tufted Ducks!

Another bird from the lake is a Cormorant, stretching its wings

And the last bird that i spotted that i hadn't seen before is a Teal, there was a pair but i wasn't able to get any closer as they seemed to be quite a shy bird.









So there is all the wildlife i saw whilst on holiday. I am quite pleased that i am able to tick off another couple of birds in my bird book.

Buzzards

Yesterday was a lovely day and a great day for buzzard spotting, went for a walk and saw three!

First off the 3 buzzards were all flying together but then 2 of them paired off and went a completely different way to the last one (which is missing some feather as you can see)

Here are the pair.

Also on the walk i spotted a bird i hadn't seen before, i believe this to be a Reed Bunting as it matches the description in my bird book, but i could be wrong.

Saw the Kingfisher zim along the river but wasn't able to find where or if it landed on any branches to fish, heard a Green Woodpecker and saw a pair of Little Grebes.

Long-Tailed Tits

I managed to get a photo of one of my favourite birds that visit my bird feeders; the Long-tailed tit! there is a pair that visit on a daily basis and love the fat cake and the berry fat square, but if the Blue tits see them they scare them away :(

The Black cap visits the fat cake almost every day at the moment, but its a very flighty bird as every time i have tried to take a picture of him he flies off before i get close enough. So instead here is a photo of a Robin that visited the feeders whilst i was sat out in the garden waiting for the Black cap.

Kestrel

As it is a lovely day today i went for a walk with my other half and saw a Little Grebe with a fish, nom nom.

And then saw a female Kestrel :) was hoping to see the Kingfisher but no such luck .

Woodpeckers

Weeeee!!! Great Spotted Woodpecker in the tree, apparently there was two but by the time i got outside the other one had flown off. Also saw the Blackcap on the feeders this morning, yay!

Kingfisher

Went for a walk yesterday afternoon by the river Avon and saw 3 Little Grebes, one by its self and then a pair further down the river:

Then saw a kingfisher! and it sat still long enough for me to get photos of it eeeeeeee!

I think it might be female as there is orange on the bottom of its beak, but i am not sure. I'm just happy i had my camera with me on this walk :)

Also saw a greater spotted woodpecker, and either a kestrel or sparrowhawk fly briefly.