It's That Time Of Year...Spring Part 1...

Spring has sprung and the grass had rise I know where the business is.... Everywhere!!! I can't seem to get away from it this time of year, Fighting, Flirting, Feeding and that’s just in my way through town but on a serious note this is just an amazing time of year to be out and about watching the birds and the babies, I just love finding a nest then sitting back in the undergrowth watching the adult birds come and go and tracking the progress and weighting for them to fledge, up to date I have never managed to see a set of chicks fledge, slightly disheartening but as long as a see chick the day before and find and empty untampered nest, it keeps me very happy, recently I have been watching 7 - 8 nest with two fledging in the last week...

I haven’t had anytime recently to keep up to date with my blogs or even spend to much time out and about, due to this I have been spending a lot more time around my local area within ten minuets or less of my house and I have rediscover my love of my local area that I sometimes take for advantage...

Since my last blog I have been working on a series of photographs that I like to think catches the Essence of early spring, I hope that you like the results















This is my favourite shot that I have taken over the last few week, I took this whilst watching this Woodpigeon collecting twigs and building a nest at Marshide...

I Really hope that you like it...



Anyway thank you for looking at my blog, sorry I haven’t been updating my blog regularly but now I have finished university I should be able to when I take the pictures,

Thanks Always Lee Harrison

Snowy Bit and Bobs...

Well here's a random selection of a photographs that I have accumilted over the past couple of weeks during the snowy conditions, mostly landscapes but there might be a few birdies dropped in just for good measure, I hope that you like them...

"Couple of birds, just for good measure"

Well it's only a short blog this time, but I hope that you like them,

Thanks Always Lee Harrison.

It's our nature...

Work, work, work, work, work, work, work work.... I was so fed up, I took my camera to "WORK" and as soon as I came on my dinner break I shot off to my local park to take a few snaps; you can't beat relaxing with nature on your break but it becomes so hard to reluctantly drag your self back, still it's the thing you have to do...

I know that these are all very simple species of birds and animals but I really enjoy taking out abit of time to spend with our more common wildlife, this is our nature, the things we see almost every day; it is so easy to take them for advantage, forgetting the true beauty and pleasure that can be taken from getting close to these creatures, I hope that you like the pics;

"Grey Squirrel"

"Robin"

"dunnock"

"Great Tit"

"Blue Tit"

"Black Bird, I'm not quite sure what was wrong with this male but I found myself feeling really sorry for it, even thought it was feeding away fine"

Thanks for stopping by, there nothing special but I thoroughly enjoyed taking then,

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

white Coppice comes to form...

I haven't had much time recently, just enough time to go down to the local patch for a few short walks... so I decided to pop down to White Coppice and see what was knocking about...

I was pleased to see that the the Cuckoo was still around although it had chosen a different home to most year and has been spending a lot of time up the Nab, the Tree Pipits have returned and I even picked up a Marsh Tit which was a nice rarity down there, a massive number of Ravens around, my Dad and Me saw 4 together at once recently and a good friend of mine saw 8 on his walk around the surrounding area, a Peregrine has been reported although I haven't any raptors apart from Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard and one unidentified raptor(that we were convinced was a Falcon(see earlier blog) myself but I do remember seen them over that area when I was very young so it would be fantastic if they had come back.

lots of different animals around as well, we have managed to get close to the local Rabbits and slightly more elusive Hares but talking to the local farmer be add that most nights whilst checking his livestock, he meets the regular Fox and Badger on him land although no sets can have been found.

Here are a few pics that I managed to get on the way around:-

House Martin

Mistle Thrush

Pied Wagtail

Willow Warbler

Male & Female Stonechat

Greater Spotted Woodpecker



Tree Pipit

And last but not least, this beautiful little Rabbit that I found feeding beside a small fence:-

Anyway thanks for viewing I hope that you will visit again,

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

70 in a day, we'll settle for that...

Had a day out with my Dad on Wednesday for four hours, started off at Marshide and then headed down to Mere Sands Wood; it turned out to be a fantastic day where we encountered 70 different species including male and female Brambling, 2 female crossbills, a willow tit our first White Wagtail, male and female Wheatear and 4 swallows. If anyone wants to see the list list, drop me a comment or and emale at leeharrison2@msn.com and I'll post it up for you.

here's a few pics i managed to take on my way around: -

ChiffChaff

Tree Sparrow

Reed Bunting

Goldfinch

Collared Dove

Blackbird

Sparrowhawk

Anyway I hoped that you like my blog and I hope you'll visit again, please feel free to leave any comment.

Thanks always Lee Harrison.