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

Common Ground...

You would think with university over and only working 2 days a week I have plenty how time to go out and do what I wish and so did I but no, for some reason I've been so busy I have been out and about for ages, so tonight as it was such a glorious evening, I decided to have a ride around a couple of my local spots around Chorley.

I started by heading to see if the Woodpecker that I had found the other day had fledged yet but for some reason they hadn't but now the chick look almost like an adult bird, calling all the time from the nest entrance...

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

As I was watching this little cracker, I managed to catch up with the local Spotted Flycatchers, unfortunately been very uncooperative...

Spotted Flycatcher

After this I decided to have a quick walk around Birkacre Lodge to see if anything was around, and there wasn't that much around really, a Pair of Mute Swans with only one chick, a pair of Grebes building a nest, plenty of Black Headed Gulls and a single Common Turn fishing around the lodge,

Here are a few pics that I managed to snap on my way around..

Great Crested Grebe

Black Headed Gull

Common Tern

Anyway I hope that you like my blog and you will visit again,

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

An Anglesark Evening...

I didn't have much time after work yesterday, so I decided to have a quick walk around my local Reservoir with a couple of nice results, as we started the walk all was quiet, a Heron fishing in the shallow,Swifts and hirundines dancing over head a Sparrowhalk gave us a close call as it landed within a metre of us an a wall, but soon departed without chance for a photo but seen such a beautiful bird this close was enough. As we reached the opposite side of the reservoir, thing started to pick up, first we stumbled across a Woodpecker nest where we could hear the young been fed and no more than 100ft down the path, we spotted a pair of Spotted Flycatchers that appeared to be feeding there young, which would be great unfortunatly the light had started to faid now the I still managed to get a couple of record pics.:-

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Spotted Flycatcher

Bluebells

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

Thanks always Lee Harrison.