Young Blackbird having a bath 14th July 2018
Although I shot this clip of film at Titchwell NR in Norfolk,Cettis warblers can now be seen and heard at Great Amwell NR
Ring necked parakeet In Thundridge.
October27th, 2016: testing a new camera , a few seconds of film of starlings feeding and they suddenly notice the red recording light on the camera (gopro)
Nature view camera test.Jan 8th 2016
Getting to know the new camera with a short clip of feeding goldfinches.
Nature view camera 2nd trial. Jan 9th 2016
Better video this time and even our local nuthatch is making a couple of appearances
20th march 2015 Little egret
For quite a few months now I have been trying to get a photo of the little egret that frequents our river, I usually see it close to the bridge or a little further up stream near the old mill and of course I never have my camera on me and, by the time I have gone home and collected my camera .............he's gone. Lucky at last, on my way back from the village shop the egret was fishing in the mill pool and was still there by the time I collected my camera
Little egret facts: Latin name: Egretta Garzetta. Family Bitterns and Herons.
A recent colonist,most common on the south and east coasts of England and Wales.The Cornish and Dorset estuarys hold some of the largest concentrations,also common in East Anglia and are becoming increasingly common in inland areas.Lively hunters they will walk and snap at passing prey and will also agitate the water with their legs to stir any hiding prey.What they eat : fish ,fish fry, amphibians and small mammals.Usually solitary but are colonial nesters laying between 4-5 eggs which are incubated for around 22 days with one brood only, breeds at 2 years old. number of breeding pairs at around 700.
Kestrel photographed and filmed in Thundridge 30th April 20015 using my Opiticron HR80 GA ED scope and camera rig.
