That Christmas Feeling...

Well it was a bit late in coming but last weekend I along with Charlotte, my sister, brother in law, grandma, grandad and Dad received our final Christmas present in the form of a weekend away to Ingleton, so I would like so say a massive thank you to her for organising a fantastic weekend; the first day we decided to head away from Ingleton and spend a day around Grasmere and Haweswater it was an amazing day, early February the sun was shining, the birds were singing there wasn't a ripple to be seen on the surface of the water, I'll let these few pictures do the talking;

I feel very strongly about these photographs, many people forget about the beauty of our local countryside, whether it's walking up Rivington or spending a day around the lakes we take it for granted and I'm not just preaching, I am guilty of this to but since spending this day around Grasmere and been reminded how amazing the scenery is I have promised myself to spend a lot more time up there and I know every time that I look at these picture, it will draw me back to the area, just a little something to think about, no matter where we spend our time around our local area, do we ever truly appreciate it?

"On reflection... it's a beautiful area"

Second day, we decided to take a walk around the waterfall walk, to try and get a few photography opportunities but due to a worsening illness we had to take a short rough as I couldn't hack the up hill climbs, this really isn't in my nature and I didn't like it but the rest of the family insisted and made us turn back nut still I managed to get a few shots, unfortunately the light was bad but it's such a fantastic place I wasn't really bothered, I hope that you like them... Well during my time up in the lakes, not many bird photography opportunities occurred but when they did I like to think that I took them... I hope that you these last pictures that I leave you with...

Well I know there not amazing but I hope that you like them, thank you for looking at my blog and I hope that you stop by again,

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

I'm back continued...

Well as I couldn't fit all my lables on one post, I've had to over run onto two... I hope you like these just as much...

Sunsets

House Sparrow

Pied Wagtail

Rook

Jackdaw

Peregrine Falcon

Buzzard

Red Kite

Herring gull

Lesser Black Backed gull

Well thansk for stopping by and please keep checking in for my other holidat posts,

Thanks always Lee Harrison

Local Area..

I have a trip round the local turfs today with my Dad, I havn't bin out for a week so I was up for a good day, first we started off at Marshside, all the usuals knocking around, Reed and Sedge Warblers singing in the reeds, plenty of wheatears around the sand plant and reports of a Green Sandpipers and whitethroats sings near Crossens.

Unfortunatly we didn't manage to catch up with the whitethroat or the green sandpiper but plenty of othes knocking around including 3 Little Ring Plover, and Ruff feeding infront of Nell's hide:-

Wheatear

Greenfinch

Kestrel

After we had finished at Marshside, we decided to head over Mere Sands Wood, nothing unusual around, chiffchaffs singing in the tops of trees, no sign of the Crossbills today and no Redpolls either, but we got some nice views of the Nuthatch, and buzzard as we walked around:-

Nuthatch

Bullfinch

Buzzard

After Mere Sands, we decided that we'd go home and et some tea but as soon as we'd finished, we were back out to White Coppice trying to add more to our daily tally, and we managed to add a few more, including:-

Willow Warbler

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Raven (a very nice surprise)

And last but deffinatly not least this bird?????? we thought definatly a Falcon of sum sort, we, though it was a merlin at first because of the size of it, it was tiny but when I think back to the sights we've had of the Merlin at Marshside, it seemed smaller than that. After looking at the pics and trying to find what it was, we really have no idea, it has a brown back and wing, an unmarked buff breast, not many head marks apart from a very distinct eye strip, witch if you look closley, you can see.

Sorry about the distant pics, but if anyone can tell me what this bird is please help....

Thanks always Lee Harrison