Pretty near perfect for walking: dappled shade in woodland this morning at the Kingfisher Bridge bird reserve near Ely:
A chaffinch and wren were serenading me when I took the photo. Shortly afterwards, a whitethroat happily hopped around a tree whilst singing its head off to advertise its presence, and just a little further on what looked like very recently fledged long-tailed tits flocked as a family in the way they always do - in the somewhat confusing plumage of their youth, but with the so distinctive outline already there to help identification. We saw no one else on this whole walk around the back of the reserve. The world was missing out.
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Unfortunately so many people don’t have easy access to such beautiful nature.
However a 4 day week and rewilding local areas would do wonders!
Agreed
Missing out indeed – some chap called Phillip Schofield is wanting to grab our attention instead?
No chance in my household.
Wonderful, we have a resident wren in our garden, its song is a wonder to hear.
Amazing volume and tunefulness from such a tiny bird.
But you wouldn’t like it nearly so much if the world was there spoiling it for you!
Where I live lots of people have got rid of their garden hedges, yet they always say how nice it is to hear all the sparrows chattering away in my hedge. Even the delivery man yesterday asked me how many I had in my hedge.
Also have families of wrens, blackbirds and dunnocks. 15 minutes walk away I have been watching lapwings in the fields, but I don’t seem to be able to get decent photos of them. Saw corncrakes in the same fields last week, though, for the first time.
Nature is amazing.
Nature is amazing
Corncrake is also quite something
And I share with you a garden hedge full of sparrows
Lovely photo. Even seeing such a photo is boosting. My back garden is really a meadow with lots of wild flowers, birds and a resident squirrel. I feel blessed.
Just as good this morning
What a wonderful photograph showing Nature in all its beauty. Thank you for sharing it Richard.