Martyn Pitt

New in from Africa ... also in pretty good voice, a Reed Warbler

Not personally Steve ... there has been a couple of sightings at Belvide last week, I thought I saw one yesterday in flight, but it was only a fleeting glimpse at distance, and the little bugger had disappeared before I could get on it with the bins ... mainly because I had a sandwich in my one hand . I am either eating, or Carol rings me just when something decent turns up

A Goldcrest on the pull ... singing it's little heart out

It would have been bought in the mid seventies Pete, certainly not a recent (after 1992) purchase. I shall have to dig it out and have a closer look.

It is spelt Lenny on the one I have from the mid seventies, obvious boot though from the quality, or lack of, in the printing of the label.

"Lenny Curtis - Nothing can help you now" booted in the mid seventies, never had the pace or exposure at the time, wouldn't have thought it sold many copies back then. In fact I have seen more real ones than boots ... I have even seen a boot of it coloured in (by hand) to make it look like a real one

Dave it's probably waiting for you to wire up a couple more monitors so that it can open it all in one go As Russell said it is best to resize images before posting them on the net or emailing them, as they can be huge when they come off a digital camera these days, I always re-size mine to 1000 pixels on the longest edge and aim for 200 - 300kb, that way they are more manageable

A few from the weekend Mallard female Canada Goose Female Black Swan (which we think is flightless and was released at the reservoir)

Lost for words ... shocked to read this sad news, always had a chat and a laugh with Joe whenever I saw him out and about, lovely guy ... My thoughts and condolences to his family and close friends. RIP Joe Martyn

We saw swifts today over the reservoir, pretty high up though ... either that or I was looking through my bins the wrong way

Wagtails are usually pretty tolerant of people, you should be able to get relatively close to them

A pair of Gadwall male & female

That was yesterday Steve ... I worked today ... anyway haven't you just had a 12 month holiday

Top left is a Pied Wagtail, to the right a Buzzard and below it a Sand Martin. The tiny Pied Wagtail had been mobbing the Buzzard ... a real David and Goliath moment being played out over the far shore of the reservoir

A couple more Great Crested Grebe ...

Great Crested Grebes mating, after the male has finished he runs up the female right over her head ...

A Great Crested Grebe swimming ... I need to take a shorter lens with a polarising filter, as they swim around amongst the pike right below the one hide Here is one of the smaller Pike

Heres something we do not want on the reserve, there were two of them Anyone want a nice coat ...

We have had our first Sand Martin on the 8th March

How about a Goldeneye doing it's Rabbit impersonation ... in the pouring rain

The weed dance ... a pair of Great Crested Grebes courting. They grab a piece of weed then present it to each other, they all do it when they are pairing up to mate ... what intrigues me is how did they learn to do it ... fascinating thing the natural world.

Here is a colourful one, a Japanese Green Pheasant ... with a limp, which I am sure he puts on to impress the ladies

About time I posted a crap one ....

Hi Derek, I wouldn't worry too much as other members have posted images that were not their own on this thread. In fact this is the third time this image has been posted on here, Smiffy got in first with post #334

They could be. Lapwing tend to fly in large flocks at times, might be them