10/07/2021 My Garden, Abram, Wigan

Green Finch: Saturday morning enjoying may garden feeder visitors. Quiet during this time of year as there is lots of natural food around, but I'm still toppoing the feeders up regularly.  

I've been tending my garden for over seven years now and it's a working in progress, an ever changing habitat of wild flowers, ornamental plating  and vegetable growing to a creation of a new of a pond.

Song Thrush: The best birds I've had in the garden during my tennear include bulfinch, lesser redpoll, siskin and willow tit. 

 

10/01/2014 Marbury Country Park

Bittern: Today I was at Marbury Country Park doing a spot of profile raining for Cheshire Wildlife Trust as they manage the reedbed, a lovely boardwalk trail and woodlands all part of Budworth Mere.

Which is currently home to two Bitterns and an impressive Starling roost.

After a longish wait and a frustrating scan over the reedbed one of the Bitterns was found hiding, we watched it for about 20 minutes before a Grey Heron flew in and pushed the Bittern out of sight.

Song Thrush: I then stopped off at Newmans Flash hoping to see the Green Winged Teal, however after scanning over hundreds of common Teal I gave in!