Ahhh Southport...

Well I managed to get out for a days birding over to Marshside, it was so nice to get back to the usual grounds after a break, I started off the day in Sandgrounders Were as always I started snapping away at the summering Avocets, these must be pictures 1 million and 2 and 3 in my Avocet album, such a beautiful and recognisable bird, I cant stop taking pictures of them,







Once I had finished taken pictures of the Avocets I turned my attentions to the swallows shooting over the surface of the water catching flies and coming down for the occasional drink as I started to photograph them a covering of cloud started to encroach over the marsh, so this proved rather tricky;







After this I headed down to Nels hide which was quite quiet, a photogenic Godwit and a flying Shelduck were the only things to attract the attentions of my camera;









After a short stay in Nels, I headed around the sand plant to see what I could find, lot of little birds knocking around but the skylarks and Meadow Pipits were the stars of the show;





Well thank you for looking at my blog, please feel free to leave any comments that you like,

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

A Funny Old Week...

Dedicated to Mr & Mrs Heys...

First thing that I would like to say is a massive congratulations

to the happy couple, I can't think of two people more

perfectly suited for each other. I wish you

all the luck in the world.

..........

Well first of all I'd like to introduce my self as even I've forgotten who I am... Sorry for the lack of posts recently but I have been busy with the holiday and then last week My sister got Married, so that took a lot of organising, writing my best man speech and practising it religiously the night before, I did managed to get out a few times but I didn't have time to post up the news, so here we go, I'll post up two different blogs, one showing birds and animals and one showing insects moths and butterflies... I hope that you enjoy:-

Birds and Animals...

Common Tern

Starling

Swallow

Green Sandpiper

Pochard

And my favourite picture I took recently,
this beautiful young cygnet.


Brown Rat

Asian Otter, I love the top pic with it tongue sticking out...

Well there you go, sorry for the lack of blogging but hopefully it will resume from now on but i hope that you still like the pics.

Thanks as always for visiting Lee Harrison

Holiday Continued...Mammals...

So the second round of the holidays, the mammals supposedly but I'm going to through in 1 bird picture that I forgot...

Swallows

Whilst I was there I had a couple of gorgeous surprises which I will never forget...

First night that we had arrived a tenby, just settling down after a 6 and a half hour straight driving and Charlotte reluctantly dragged me out for a walk "I wasn't impressed" but I prevailed and my mood was soon changed.


We headed up to Alan's point, only a two minuet walk but an iconic landmark to our family, as we sat there over looking Alan's point, i soon noticed 2 fox's sat at the far end of the field in front of us, so I decided to sneak along the side of the field and try to get closer to them. Eventually I reached the bottom of the field, so I decided to climb up a tree to reach a small banking, once I had climbed on top I was treated to one of my most rememberable sights that I've ever seen, sitting no more that 15 metres was a beautiful Dog Fox, it just stood there watching me whilst I grabbed my camera off Charlotte and took a few shots, I looked up and just behind the nearest one were 2 more, just relaxing in the foxgloves. an amazing moment.

Red Fox

Four days later I decided to returned to the foxes and try to get some more pic as I was still amazed by the earlier night, as I approached I saw the Vixen just relaxing maybe even sleeping in front of the den (show to the right on the above Pic.) but once I had got closer she had all descended to the dark depths of the den, so I decided to stand far back to just watch and appreciate. As I Was sat there , I noticed all the rabbited started to act peculiar when all of a sudden a Badger popped out of the bushes just to the right of me, no more than 30 metres into the field (I couldn't believe my luck)

Badger

Not an amazing picture my "God" I was so happy (apologies for the blasphemy) but it was amazing.

During the holiday, we were also very luck to come into close contact with Gray Seals and Bottle Nosed Dolphins, both amazing spectacles... See what you think:-

Bottle Nosed Dolphins

Grey Seal

Anyway I hope that you enjoyed this blog and that you will tune in for the next one.

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

Work Work Work...

Work, Work, Work, Work and ohh just a bit more more work, yeah... av spent all week doing uni. work this week, and I've only managed to get for for a couple of short walks but i still managed to pick up a few shots.

On Wednesday I had a walk down to Moss Bank Park hoping to get a few nice pics of a Peacock, I like to think that I succeeded but I'll leave it up to you to judge...

Peacock

and tonight, I had a walk around Marshide and the golf course, where I was hoping to see a few of the smaller birds and maybe a Blackcap but no, a Moorhen and Wood Pigeon and a few Swallows, that was it... luckily things started to pick up as we continued to walk around, plenty of House Martins flying very close, Wheatear, House Sparrows, Pied and White wagtails, Linnets a very large Brown Hare and many more:-

House Martin

Swallow

And the highlight of the night and a first for me, this beautiful drake Gargany which had just settled down for the evening (everyone loves a new tick) :-

Gargany

Anyway i hope that you liked my blog and that you will visit again, please feel free to leave an comment.

Thanks always Lee Harrison

Happy Easter Everyone...

Easter bank holiday and the motorways were at a stand still, so we ditched our plans to go to Leighton Moss and headed down to the local turf instead so we spent a day down at Marshside and Mere Sands Wood. It was a fantastic day in between all the rain showers, all the usual birds knocking around and a few new ones, Willow Warblers singing all the way down Marine Drive, Blackcaps singing at Mere Sands and Redpoll flitting around, 5 House Martin over Nell's hide and numerous Swallows, no sign of the little stint but a single 2nd winter Med. Gull made up for the loss and a number of Ruff feeding close to the road.

Thanks to George Griffith AKA Grandad for this beautiful picture shown above, such a fantastic shot.

Here are a few pictures that I managed to get on my way around: -

Marshside

Ruff

Snipe

Black Tailed Godwit

Swallow (About 100mph)

Redshank

Mere Sand Wood

Siskin

Tree Sparrow

Wren

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Red Legged Partridge

Thanks for looking at my blog, I hope that you liked it and that you will visit again,

Thanks alway Lee Harrison