Archived & Upcoming Images of the Day
Montage of about .75 seconds of a swallow passing food to it's chick.
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Welcome annual return of what has become one of our regulars now the wood is more established - a speckled wood, here sunbathing on a willow leaf.
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A fieldmouse clinging to the end of the log. For scale - the red slice is a small crab apple.
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Wheee... Slight blur suggests it is moving fast right to left.
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Bats are suddenly in evidence. They are difficult to identify even in photos, but we think we are seeing Pipistrelles in the evenings & these brown long-eared some mornings.
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The more anthropomorphic of us will consider this 'kissing', but actually they are rubbing noses very sweetly.
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A new 'late' family feeding on the wires. Hope they can feed up enough before migration.
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Its easy to forget just now small these creatures are - the purple-red wild plum is barely larger than a cherry.
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A quiet family scene at the log.
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Darter dragonflies are smaller cousins of hawkers (see 18 Sep 2007) but no less beautiful.
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A new family of swallows are being fed on the wires. This youngster was just coming in to land.
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While 'yesterdays' dragonfly was hawking this butterfly came down to drink. We half expect the dragonfly to attack it (yes - they can catch & eat butterflies on the wing) but it didn't.
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The flying jewellery are delighting us with acrobat displays of glorious colour. Here one hovered for a second or two providing a chance for a set of images in flight. The wingbeats are far faster than the camera can manage, so don't try to interpret the wing positions.
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Another pair of fieldmice in a face-to-face encounter.
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The dragonflies are now zooming around like fighter pilots. When they stop for a moment you can get a pic.
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The same fieldmouse seems to spend hours at this site. Here is a little montage.
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A hawthorn branch overhangs this camera site, and this fieldmouse is burrowing under the dropped twigs to get at the food. Hawthorn berries obviously not first choice!
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This montage shows a real occurrence of an adult goldfinch taking off leaving a juvenile (and a few more out of the crop) on the wires. They don't seem to indulge in feeding on the wires.
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There are at least 5 Juvenile moorhen on the main pond, along with alternate adults as they incubate another clutch. Here you can see the huge feet that allow them to walk on water weeds.
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Fighting or loving - isn't it hard to tell the difference.
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The fieldmouse population at the new camera site includes a new light grey youngster we have not seen before even though only a dozen metres from the old site. This is a montage of 3 separate photos.
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Two kestrels in flight together (NOT a montage). Neither is an adult male, and according to the books juveniles and females are difficult to tell apart. From the behaviour our guess this is mother and her offspring.
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A sort of 'leave some for me'? Have not previously noticed that voles also hold food in their paws.
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The crows & jackdaws have gone back to mass mobbing every appearance of a kestrel, so we have had only a few fleeting good views in the last few days.
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Part of our moorhen family - one adult and 2 of the most recent broods juveniles, against a shaft of evening sunlight.
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What we think might be the same juvenile robin as show on 28 Aug 2007 now added a few more red feathers to his 'first'.
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Could this be a Mouse's eye view of it's last moment on earth?
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A Goldfinch having a half-hearted attempt at mating. Goldfinches have not been seen here in previous summers, but this year they have a family. Having delighted in their sweet chittering and little groups flying about, we understand the collective name 'charm of goldfinches'.
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We do hope the squirrels leave us a few of the hazel nuts. Unripe nuts are being taken even from the only netted tree.
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No - we have no idea what is going on here. Thanks for Christine's suggestion of a ballet 'entrechat' (look it up in your dictionary if you are as ignorant of ballet as we are).
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