Radipole RSPB Reserve
While Ted and Benji were being pampered at the groom room, I had a walk around Radipole RSPB Reserve for an hour or so. The sun and blue sky certainly brought the birds out and also the photographers with their huge lenses.
I have nothing against photographers, I was a photographer in the RAF for 33 years. But watching 5 photographers using a 600mm lenses to photograph Bearded Tits from just 6 metres away was a bit much.
On top of that they were jostling with each other to get the best position for a photograph. Social distancing!!! Apparently the pandemic has finished. I don't think so. Me I stood well back and recorded a pair feeding in the Reedbed. The Bearded Tits that is.
Other highlights were my first Goldeneye and Reed Bunting, plus the Bearded Tits to add to my 2022 bird list.
While Ted and Benji were being pampered at the groom room, I had a walk around Radipole RSPB Reserve for an hour or so. The sun and blue sky certainly brought the birds out and also the photographers with their huge lenses.
I have nothing against photographers, I was a photographer in the RAF for 33 years. But watching 5 photographers using a 600mm lenses to photograph Bearded Tits from just 6 metres away was a bit much.
On top of that they were jostling with each other to get the best position for a photograph. Social distancing!!! Apparently the pandemic has finished. I don't think so. Me I stood well back and recorded a pair feeding in the Reedbed. The Bearded Tits that is.
Other highlights were my first Goldeneye and Reed Bunting, plus the Bearded Tits to add to my 2022 bird list.
Birds Recorded:
1 Great Crested Grebe
4 Little Grebe
Cormorant
Grey Heron
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Mallard
Teal
Shoveler
Tufted Duck
Pochard
1 Goldeneye
1 Sparrowhawk
Water Rail
Moorhen
Coot
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
3 Stonechat
Blackbird
Cetti's Warbler
Chiffchaff
2 Bearded Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Wren
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Reed Bunting
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Reed Bunting
One of the four Little Grebes opposite the Visitors Centre, where there was also a Goldeneye.
A Grey Heron soaks up the sun on one of the posts.
.............male Stonechats. A female was also seen.
A pair of Bearded Tits