Wagtail

Wagtail and some more infrared

Green Woodpecker

Pays to always have the camera ready ... a Yaffle outside and a Green Woodpecker visits the front path in search of ants. Never before seen in the garden. Focus alas slightly infront of the eye ... lets hope there's another visit in the future !

Green Woodpecker - Picus viridis

Siskin - Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

Female Siskin - Carduelis spinus - feeding on the ground. A tree had fallen at the Reserve and was attracting a handful of Siskins to feed on the ground around the branches.

A Siskin feeds on the ground.

Buzzard being mobbed

Common Buzzard being mobbed.

Walk from Otford to Shoreham Cricket Club in the snow

Sparrowhawk and Yellowhammer in the snow

Sparrowhawk - Accipiter Nisus Yellowhammer - Emberiza citrinella. Yellowhammer - Emberiza citrinella Robin - Erithacus rubecula

Nikon V1 with 300mm and 1.4tc

Certainly sharper than using the 2x teleconverter ... less things to photograph today though !

Coot - Fulica atra Siskin - Carduelis spinus

Siskin flock

Grey day and weary of the Kingfisher stake out so grabbed the V1 with the FT1, the 300mm with the 2x tc and a monopod. Nothing outstanding (or indeed super sharp - monopod to blame) but 1620mm is quite satisfying for small birds in a digiscoping kind of way. All from the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve.

Badgers in January

It's been fairly mild and wet this Winter. In harsher conditions the Badgers would probably just be staying underground ..?

Badgers at Christmas

Badger video for November and December plus some snapshots from the last month.



Magpie - Pica pica

Winter frost

Robin - Erithacus rubecula

A Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus - hovering

Autumn into Winter tree reflection

Autumn leaves and tree reflected in water

Dunnock in the rain

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

Badgers at Night

Tufted Duck at Sunset

Redwing

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.