Photographs from the past year

 It's been good to get down to the reserve more regularly in the past year or so to enjoy all it has to offer, and to see and hear about the excellent developments in recent years and those to come.  It's always been a great place to visit and looks as though it will thrive even more in the years ahead.  There's been a lot of great work done by many people and they all deserve a huge 'thank you'!

Here's a selection of images from in and around the reserve in the last 12 months:

View across the lagoon

Blue Tit

Robin

Buttercups in The Meadow

Great Tit

Along the canal

Nuthatch

Clover in The Meadow

Young robin moulting into adult plumage

Female Chaffinch

Autumnal foliage in the Small Meadow

RicJ

Cromwell Bottom Birds

I haven't posted images on the blog for quite some time.  Here's just a handful of the birds  that call Cromwell Bottom their home and are part of the impressive list of all that do.  Enjoy!

Great Tit

Robin

Coal Tit

Bullfinch

Long-tailed Tit

Ric J

At the Viewing Area

A few images from yesterday afternoon.  A dozen or so bullfinch, great tit and blue tit along with long-tailed tit, chaffinch and robin were around for most of the time.  A jay put in a very quick visit, too.

Great Tit

Blue Tit

Bullfinch

Chaffinch

Robin

Ric Jackson

Early Autumn birds at the feeding station

A few of the birds that were round and about the feeders last Saturday.  A jay and great spotted woodpecker kept out of camera range.  And, at the weir, a pair of mallards and a teal.  Enjoy!

bullfinch

chaffinch (m)

great tit

coal tit

blue tit

long-tailed tit

dunnock

chaffinch (f)

Ric Jackson

Another busy afternoon at the Viewing Area

There was plenty of activity yesterday, as last week, when I spent time at the Viewing Area.  The female pheasant was still about and a sparrowhawk had feasted on a pigeon earlier in the day.  I don't know what species, but it may have been the mate of the woodpigeon that was around all the time I was there.  It's the first time I've seen a woodpigeon feeding on the tables.  If so, an unlucky visit for the bird that got caught.

Enjoy a few images from the afternoon:

woodpigeon

robin

bullfinch

redpoll

great tit

A few of the usual suspects...

...and some that are not.


There was plenty of action at the Bird Viewing Area late yesterday afternoon, including a bird I haven't seen there before.  Enjoy the photographs.

reed bunting

redpoll

great tit

jay

robin

bullfinch

magpie

pheasant

mallard

A bird fix

Judging by a lack of bird photographs on the blog, it would appear a species not showing well recently at the reserve is the bird photographer - I count myself in that observation!  For those of you needing a fix of bird photographs, here are some from earlier in the autumn :) Enjoy!

Robin

Great Tit

Nuthatch

Chaffinch

Blue Tit

Chaffinch

Coal Tit