Dawn - no sign of the Cuckoo yet

Spring: Fighting Pheasants and BlueBells.

None of the Pheasant pictures quite work - either the framing was a bit off or the focus not quite where I wanted...

Heavy rain and hail at the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve.

Always a twig infront of a Bullfinch ...

Dunnock in the rain

Early Sunday morning as the rain started to come in ...

Badgers at Night

Tufted Duck at Sunset

Bullfinches everywhere.

Everywhere I went there were Bullfinches seen or heard, but does a Bullfinch ever sit out in the open ?

Having seen three foxes on Saturday morning I tried predict their locations on Sunday for a decent picture. It worked rather too

well as I got within 5 feet of a fox before either of us realised the other was there ... no picture of that fox.

Snow in Otford

Out at dawn while the snow was still fresh looking for Foxes. There were many tracks in the snow but the only Fox was seen later in the day. The Yellowhammers were back feeding on the field margins like last year but were more wary ...

Yellowhammer in Snow 2010

A Bullfinch was seen and several more heard near to Shoreham. It was left to the Goldfinches for the picture of the day - photographed infront of a snow covered Pyracantha.

Fighting Ducks

Looked pretty close to being a fatal encounter between these two male ducks. One got the upper hand and managed to submerge the other duck for probably 20 seconds.

TreeCreeper - Certhia familiaris

Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris

Great Crested Grebe

Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps cristatus

Great Crested Grebe in moonlight

Another work in progress, needed some more stability to do a moonlight reflecting in the water shot.

To The Kent Marshes.

An annual pilgrimage to Oare Marshes. This year is was less cold and less windy so an altogether more pleasant experience. A host of interesting creatures can be seen at Oare Marshes throughout the year. Today we did not see that much though ... not sure but think this was probably a Redshank ?

Lapwing.

Quite possibly a Redshank - Tringa Totanus

Bittern

First time I've ever seen a Bittern (Botaurus stellaris). It's clear from the considerable range I saw it from that this is a very well camouflaged bird !

Bittern - Botaurus stellaris

Night Heron

A pretty tough picture so these are just really the first tests for a picture yet to come.

A Heron on the pond with Christmas lights