From the Bird Hide - Odds and Ends

The final post in my current series of observations at the Bird Hide

I thought I would end this series with a few more regulars

The Great Tit (Parus major)

The largest of the resident Tit family and a common sight in a wide variety of habitats

The Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

Normally observed on the ground it was most unusual to see it visiting a table

This is the only location that I have observed that behaviour

Brown from a distance the Dunnock ( a resident species) has really quite nice markings close up 

The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

Our most common species of the Finch family

This resident bird can be observed in many and varied habitats

A gregarious species especially now and on into the winter

I hope that my next visit to the bird hide will reveal something more rare and that this has not been too boring a visit for you to my blog

From the Bird Hide - The Blue Tit

The third in my latest series from the Bird Hide.

The Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus)

Just about everyone's favourite and one of our most common resident species

A colourful little bird that can be found in most habitats

Its equally at home in gardens as in the remote hedgerows and woodlands

Tweaked in Aperture

From the Bird Hide -Marsh Tit

The second in my latest series from the Bird Hide

The Marsh Tit (Parus palustris)

This image below provides a scale of size for this species against the Blue Tit

Marsh is its name, but you wont find this species in marshes

It frequents broadleaved woodland

From the Bird Hide - The Coal Tit

Its Autumn now and that time of year when I occasionally visit "The Bird Hide"

This hide is located in a large woodland area (Fineshade Wood) maintained by the Forestry Commission

I am splitting up three species I observed into separate posts

On my recent visit only the usual suspects put in an appearance, so if you follow my blog you would have seen these before

However I was told on arrival at the hide by another birdwatcher that I had just missed a couple of Crossbills and would have been able to get some good photographs of them (I really needed to know that)

Anyway here is the first species I am posting

The Coal Tit (Parus ater)

The first image below provides a scale of size for this species against the Great Tit and the second image against the Blue Tit

The Coal Tit is one of our resident birds
An active and quite small bird that frequents woodland and parkland areas

Acorn Feast

"These acorns are scrumptious"

Scenes from two Cycle Rides (1)

These are a few scenes taken on a cycle ride recently

They were taken in areas just west of the fenland levels of north Cambridgeshire

The images above and below was recently a field of wheat

It has been replanted already with something

This old Oak tree makes a nice subject to photograph

More than slightly tweaked

Scenes from two Cycle Rides (2)

Scenes mainly of country roads on another recent cycle ride

"Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men" 

You may not know what that means

If you do then you are of a certain age

The church at Etton village

The crab apple tree add some nice colour to the entrance

Dinner is Served

A Black-headed Gull on a fishing expedition

A Cormorant with a snack