Flyladyphotography By Wendy Cooper

  Well, the other weekend I went for a bit of a walk on the Local Patch and thought you may care to come along with me...   It is a sunny and slightly breezy afternoon, quite warm in some of the more sheltered spots and not too chilly in the others!   As we walk to the woods, in the Blackthorn and Brambles at the edge, are a number of small birds, a Robin is singing loudly, he considers this to be 'his' patch and several Great and Blue Tits are flitting about.  At about eye level, there is one of the local House Sparrows, a female, who is obviously having a busy day - she is collecting materials for a nest.  We watch her for a while, whilst she watches us quizzically back, before flying off to continue her home improvements.   As we enter the woods, to our left is a reasonable sized pond, we walk softly as we can hear frogs singing and as we walk carefully down the slope to the edge, we can see a lot of little heads bobbing in the water as well as qui...

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 ...