Garden, 11/1/10

Garden, 3/1/10

Velvet Scoter, Barrow Lodge, Clitheroe, 27/12/09

Pine Lake, Leighton Moss & Sizergh Castle, 23/10/09

Hawfinch

Great White Egg & Little Egg

All photos digiscoped. The day started with a visit to Pine Lake to see the Slavonian Grebe that was present but, to distant for photographing. Next onto the Allen Pools in an attempt to see the 2 Great White Egrets. Eventually one put in an appearance here while the other was seen from Grizedale Hide later on. Finally a visit to Sizergh Castle to try and see the Hawfinches that have been around of late. Thankfully 2 birds showed and so completed the hat-trick of top birds for the day.

Garden, 23/9/09

Always a decent find in the garden......Chiffchaff.

The last Spanish posting....

Arguably one of the best birds of the holiday was the

sighting of 2 Nightjars feeding along the sea-front

each evening. Unfortunately trying to photogragh

them was nigh on impossible. So just to prove they

were there, here is a crap photo of one of them.

Garden, July/Aug '09

'The Kids'

'The Daddy'