Yellow wagtail ( Motacillaflava )

Magpies

Magpie on the entrance wall to the police station wonder if its been stealing something shiny.

Grey squirrel and magpie forraging on the police station green.

A lone mushroom. these are one day only seems they grow at night by dusk they turn into a slime.

The autmn falls gathering in the severn river

Bleeding pine tree. see next shot

As a boy in woodwork class we would boil this what is sap from the cut in a pine tree. once boiled it was glue, this is still used today by hand crafted wood furniture makers

Masters of camoflague the only time they are spotted is when they fly over the river in search of a moving grub.

Not a bad shot considering how far it was

Nice markings on its back or rump view

these are juvenile yellow wagtails

Dunnock (Prunella modularis)

Male blackbird.

Starlings gathering on the Poplar trees by St Mary's church.

Starlings in flight

starling arch

The Mallards elite meeting.

the common mallards meeting place

toadstool under the pine trees.

brew time for these canoeists. already they have done the five miles from Caersws, they said an average of 3 miles an hour and today they are hopeing to reach Welshpool some 14 miles down river.

These two guys are from the Chester area the guy waving is a Newtown man, his father still live here in Aberhafesp a vilage 4 miles out of town.

saw some very strange fun will post it tomorrow.

The Coal Tit. Periparus ater

The Isabelline Wheatear, Oenanthe isabellina. shots where taken high up on the cliff top above Aberystwyth

The Isabelline Wheatear, Oenanthe isabellina,  thank you Bob for its I D .Bobs blog is on http://birdsfod.blogspot.com/ .

Cormorants on the rock bellow the cliffs at Aberystwyth

The Coal Tit, Periparus ater, presumably Irish Coal Tit, P. a. hibernicus (note yellowish cheeks and breast)

Another poppy opened this morning by noon it was fully open. the yellow Rose is a June/July flowering species,All we need now is some frost that will put a stop to the plants that are still flowering

20.10.11 moon at 8.30

Spotted flycatcher

One of the pair of flycatchers is darker than the other so its either an adult and juvenile or a male and female.

Wood pigeon just taking a nap.

the monkey puzzle tree on fire

Male Juvenile blackbird in the thorn tree

Robin sheltering from the rain

one of the midges

this midge is almost moth like.

the midge on the window

The Coal Tit, Periparus ater

Black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus

 

18 months ago  i shot these Stilt  that where on a small strip of water near the tombs of El-Kab.  and if you want to see the tombs please go to   http://myegypttours.blogspot.com
We are in El Kab  this photo was taken of the small pond just outside the village where the Stilts where photographed.

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Whitethroat,Sylvia communis

Whitethroat,Sylvia communis another one that comes to the comunial feeder

Whitethroat,a bit windswept

blue tit on the peanut feeder

Great tit on the peanut feeder

another one with young somewhere

The Eurasian Treecreeper or Common Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)

so fast it must be on a timer on each tree

a bit better shot as it passed for a grub

almost a blurr as it heads on up the tree,

I put the flash on to get this one that was the last straw it must have thought as it went round the back of the tree..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilelife/

Dipper, Cinclus cinclus

Dipper on A stone in the river severn Dolerw park Newtown

not a bad shot from 50yards

RobinErithacus rubecula in the false acasia tree waiting its turn on the feed table

one of the juveniles on the bird table.

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Robin waiting for a worm to surface  after I dug a patch in the back garden,

Robin on a roof in Caernarvon

Robin in the Quarry gardens Shrewsbury

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

Wood pigeon sitting on her nest, mid September seems a bit late for a hatch. but mother nature knows best!

bit of a bad landing

testing the water

and now for a sip of severn river water

Great Tit Parus major,the rest of the tits are on

https://wildaboutwales.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/great-tit-parus-major/

Pair of juvenile Jackdaws

Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

mallard's play time

Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos and Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
on the severn river near St Mary’s church  in Newtown Powys.

and away it goes down stream,

Something else was trying to get in the river today,   over the past few months I have had the pleasure of seeing a shopping trolley,park bench,footballs traffic cones a waste paper bin or rather a doggy poo park bin and today this unusual sight of a bicycle looks like the owner  missed the water while doing a jump off the dolerw park suspension bridge,  I hope the silly **** has broken his neck

it takes two minutes to get to the river from the bridge and the seat had dissapeared

Squrrel collecting acorns, The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae).

oyster catcher, Kittiwake,Redshank

todays blog has photos of 12 species of birds

oyster catcher and a Kittywake

Kittiwake. Larus tridactyla.

Kittiwake. Larus tridactyla.

Kittiwake. Larus tridactyla.

A flock of Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus.

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus.

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus.

Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus. on the hunt.

ok not an oyster but a mussle

now its going to clean it

the Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus. was about 150 yards away , every time I got closer it moved.

Herring Gull Larus argentatus . parent and juvenile

parents with their young

swan and herring gull this is near the marker bouy that the cormorants were on an hour earlier’Caernarvon Castle quay wall is in the background

about ready to dive

Cormorants on a marker bouy photo taken from Caernarvon castle quay wall.

cormorant near the Voryd harbour bridge Rhyl

two cormorants flying over the beach at Rhyl

Cormorants, Kittiwakes and great black-backed gull, larus marinus, on the sand banks shot taken from the train off Barmouth bridge that crosses over the Mawddach river

Redshank Tringa totanus

Redshank Tringa totanus

odd coloured mallard ducks and a kittiwake

Robin on a roof in Caernarvon

pair of Swans in the Menai straights near Caernarvon castle

mute swan one of two pairs near the Castle

grey heron ardea cinerea. foraging around the yatch bouys on the river Seiont estuary Caernarvon

Afon Seiont (Welsh, meaning River Seiont in English) is a river in Gwynedd,Wales which runs into the Menai straights

Its source is the outflow of Llyn padarn near Llanberis, and it flows out in a generally northwest direction. Between the outflow and the village of llangurig it is known as the afon rhythallt, changing its name just after the village. Its mouth is in the town of Caernarvon, forming a natural harbour as it flows out into the Menai Strait. The Afon Nant-Peris provides the main inflow into Llyn Peris which then drains into Llyn Padarn with the addition of the waters of the Afon Arddu which drains the northern slopes of Snowdon.

The name of the Roman fort of Segontium , near Caernarfon, is based on the Latinised form of the name ‘Seiont’.

barn owl, the owls were on display at the celtic food area on the conway quay. not something i like birds tied up.

looks like a juvenile long eared owl

juvenile short eared owl??

Birds in Wales

Male just had a bathe, he is never far away from its young

Juvenile blackbirds in my front  garden.

male ( darker)and female

Juvenile robins in the park

juvenile robin Erithacus rubecula. no sign of the parents these two were so busy hunting for worms,

WREN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES

NOW THATS QUITE A LONG NAME FOR SUCH A SMALL BIRD,

ON THE BANKS OF THE SEVERN  IN NEWTOWN  BETWEEN THE TWO BRIDGES THERE

ARE FOUR  GROUPS OF YOUNG ONES  I COUNTED ELEVEN WRENS

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THE ladies mantle ,seems to provide a few bugs for the wren.

WRENS NESTING HOLES IN THE SOIL BANKNEAR  THE RIVER

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MAYBE THESE IDIOTS  PUT THE SEATS IN THE RIVER THINKING  IT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO WATCH THE WRENS FROM,

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)

MISLE THRUSH (Turdus viscivorus )

BLACKBIRD ( Turdus merula)

GREY SQUIRREL, MAYBE IF I KEEP STILL HE WILL GO AWAY.

Western Gulls(Larus occidentalis )on the Severn in Newtown

Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)in Newtown park

FEMALE BLUE TIT( CAYNISTES CAERULEUS)FEEDING ON THE SEEDS OF THE HOGWEED (HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM)and the vespula germanica, german wasp feeding on the flower polen,