Flyladyphotography By Wendy Cooper

Well recently, after a grey weekend, I decided to pop up to RSPB Lakenheath for an afternoon's walk .   It was a bright sunny day, with  light breezes and quite cold, but crisp.   I arrived at about one o'clock and set off from the Visitor centre, where I paused first on the deck to watch the birds just outside in the reeds and trees around the edge of the pond.  It is quite a suntrap and there were a number of Reed Buntings sunning themselves, giving some close up views.       There were also quite a few Chaffinches, Blue and Great Tits flitting about - occasionally making use of the feeding station, but mostly keeping an eye on me!   Every so often I could hear the chattering and chirping of Goldfinches, catching glimpses of them flitting high into the trees above me; one of these was rather bold and came and perched very close, using only it's branch to try and 'hide' behind - there were a few coy one-eyed glances at ...

  Back in January, we decided to have a trip to RSPB Lakenheath Fen, in Suffolk.  The day was bright, crisp and rather chilly - the frost from the morning still being about well into the afternoon.  The reserve is a mixture of fenland and woodland, surrounded by farmland with a river running through it.  As we drove into the carpark, a sparrowhawk flashed low across the front of us, in hot pursuit of a late lunch, the start of a promising afternoon.   Just outside the visitor centre there are feeders and a waterway, I have never seen so many Reed Buntings in the open before - usually I'm lucky to get a glimpse when they hop up out of the reeds.  They were basking in the sunshine as well as visiting the feeders.   As we followed the footpath towards the first viewpoint, there were a fair few rooks too-ing and fro-ing between the fields the otherside of the railway line and the trees, very cheeky and very loud!   When we reached ...