Bit of a Red Kite Bonanza yesterday. I am so lucky to live in a region where these birds are a common sight both in the countryside and the local towns
Two versions of the same photo of two sibling Canada Goslings. Quite liked the Gosling on the right of shots tongue, so cropped it to produce the first image.
Here is one of a pair of Common Tern seeing of a Red Kite that was flying directly above the Terns Nesting site. (The female Tern was sat quietly on the nest). The Kite was shoed away from the lake.
I have pictures of just 3 birds (species) today, but they are all nice in their own way.
We were at Pitstone Water this afternoon, walking round the Wildlife Trust route on the south side. There were a pair of Red Kites that buzzed us as we got out of the car in the car park (and later went on to harass a pair of Common Tern).
Here is a Eurasian Wren that's just nabbed a grub. Had to lighten this image up a little cos it was a tad dark in this section of the wood this evening
A brown winged female pileated woodpecker has been coming regularly to the feeder. She stands out because usually, pileated woodpeckers have black wings feathers. I don't know the significance of the brown feathers on her wings, but at least they help me tell her apart from the other female pileated woodpeckers. #bird#birding#birdsofmastodon#birdphotography#nature#woodpecker#HoosierMast