Flamingo Land

Flamingo Land

27/12/2015

Flamingo Land (Zoo), Malton, North Yorkshire

A day out with eh family at the zoo during the Christmas break. Not wildlife in every sense of the word, but cracking animals to take photographs of!!!

Black-necked Grebe Fantastic

Black-necked Grebe Fantastic

November to December 2015

Scarborough Harbour, North Yorkshire

 

Amazing sights in Scarborough Harbour this Autumn with, not 1,2 or 3, but up to 5 Black-necked grebes around at any one time.

 

Though not in the wonderful summer plumage still a fabulous bird to see so close up.

I wonder how long they will be around.

I look forward to some decent weekend weather to photograph these birds a little more, but it never seems to happen!!!

 

 



Little Auks

Little Auks

22/11/2015

Scarborough Harbour, North Yorkshire

After only ever seeing one Little Auk very briefly last year and at a fair distant what a great sight it was to see a number all in one day, with the first landing on the rock armour on the Marine Drive, the next 2 off the outer harbour wall and then 1 or 2 in the harbour its self, brilliant!!! (though I missed out on 7 all at once and a Black Throated Diver, as I left as usual a few minutes to early!!! but was drenched by a hail storm, see the picture of the Little Auk in the hail storm!!!)

Little Auk in a bad hail storm, I was stood on the end of the harbour with a few grand of camera gear in hand, is not a great idea!!!

 

 

A little bit of fun was when one of the Little Auks came to close for the 'big lens boys' to photograph , they could have picked it out of the water with their hands. Sometimes we just have to sit, look and admire the wildlife, you never know what its going to do!!!

 

Squirrelling Around

Squirrelling Around

25/10/2015

Near Hawes, North Yorkshire

A lovely day, if not a little dark, due to the deepest darkest conifer forest surroundings, at a special place I know near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales where the odd Red Squirrel hang out!!

A little bonus, though again very dark, were a few Goldcrest flitting around the edges of the conifers feeding quite high up. A bird that never sits still!!!

Goldcrests

 

Red Squirrels