Martyn Pitt

We always clear an opening in the fraggies in front of the hide at the end of the Autumn, this year we made it a bit bigger which seems to have paid off with some regular visits from the Kingfishers, this young lady was on show for quite a while this morning, to start with when it was still pretty dark, then she came back when the light improved, unfortunately she failed to re-appear when it really brightened up ... never mind there is always next time

Steve, nothing you can do about them hiding in trees, especially Owls, they would be buggers to play hide and seek with. That is a rare bird to see, so any photo of it is a bonus

Here is a Green Woodpecker that was in my back garden in the week,shame it was a dull day. This was taken through our back bedroom window

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That Kingfisher shot was in the Daily Mail, it was taken by Alan McFadyen. The Kingfisher is diving into a glass tank that is full of small fish, ... still a nice shot, it has been causing a fair few rows on facebook as to the rights and wrongs of the method used to get it.

Steve the human tripod ... ooh errr misses Anyway ... a couple of Turnstones enjoying a break in Lanzarote

More holiday snaps ... stood on our terrace taking these

Part ninja me Steve

More than likely Dave I have seen most birds doing this at some time

Dave it's auditioning for the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie ... Either that or it's what most birds do when they are resting

Yes we did thanks Steve ... here are a couple of my holiday snaps These were taken in the rocks below our patio, I managed to get to within 10 feet of the Sanderlings without spooking them

Sorry for the delay in responding Steve, but I have been away for a weeks sunshine Steve there is a Brown Hawker or a Migrant Hawker (also a Southern Migrant Hawker). Brown Hawkers have a distinct and unique amber coloured wing, which makes them easy to identify, which I do not see on the one in your photo. I would think what you photographed was a female Migrant Hawker. Migrant Hawkers are always the latest ones to appear, and with the mild weather we have been having they seem to have been around for a bit longer.

Cheers Peter, ... I like that you can see his eye through the wing on the second image ... but that is just absolute pure luck on my part

A Shoveler getting airborne ...

Kingfishers are getting more active, actually got one on a perch in front of the hide ... for a nano second

We cut down a few willow trees up in the marsh, which opened up the small brook that feeds the reservoir, which meant I got to see a few of these bombing up and down, even managed to get a couple static for a second or two

A Peregrine Falcon decided he fancied a bit of Lapwing for his lunch ... however the Lapwing had other ideas, and managed to avoid being first up on the menu

A couple of Migrant Hawkers from the weekend I wasn't carrying the right kit for these really, I was set up for shots of birds, so it was quite a challenge to find these using 700mm of lens

Had this on a tape in the car back in the early 90's, my daughter who was only a toddler asked why they were swearing on the song, when the "walk on" chorus kinks in she thought they were sing F*** Off

Here's a couple for the anglers on here, forget the hemp and tares, if it's Roach your'e after use a Cormorant We reckoned the Roach be a good one and a half pound fish

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It was like winter yesterday morning, dark and cold ... in photography parlance the light was pants, especially when I was trying to snap the fast and erratic hirundines Here are a couple of Swallows I managed to get in the gloom

We had around eighty Cormorants at Belvide on Saturday, they started one end and moved along the reservoir "herding" the fish, as soon as one came up with a fish the others would mob it to try and relieve it of it's catch

Steve the one we had stuck around for a while so you may be lucky. One of my favourites, probably because they are not camera shy ... a Ruddy Darter

Lovely shots of the Bees Russell Here is a tricky one to get, a Brown Hawker ... not the easiest to spot when they do decide to stop flying around, and certainly one of the easiest to spook