Monday 28 January 2013

Birding on a Sunday Afternoon

Having spent all of last week trudging about under low, grey light, it was a delight to wake to clear blue skies, bright sunshine and most of the settled snow melted away. We kept our fingers crossed that it would last all day. And it did. We spent our afternoon at RSPB Old Moor nature reserve. The whole place was bathed in beautiful, golden light as the wind shook swathes of grass alongside the still partially frozen water. Bramblings, chaffinches and tree sparrows chattered in the hedgerows whilst teals, tufted ducks and widgeons paddled through the wetlands. Magic! 

4 comments:

  1. Lovely photos, lucky you seeing/hearing so many birds! Yesterday the girls and R, completed an online survey for garden bird watch! Keep 2013 inspired xx

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  2. Wow, that looks just like Ham Wall the RSPB wetlands we visited a few weeks back. Love hte picture of you in the hide - we had such fun arriving at the hide in the dark and then opening up all the hatches. Lovely pics!

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  3. Gorgeous photos, you can really feel and hear the swoosh of the wind in the penultimate one x

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  4. What beautiful photographs - can you believe the blue of that sky x Jane

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