I Should Go Out More

I should go out more, but when Farmer Grose cut his silage today in the field behind my house I was glad I stayed at home. I have posted Buzzards before and I have got plenty of photo's of them but I couldn't resist capturing these images. I missed an image of a life time of two Buzzards right in front of me fighting on the ground with talons locked. Unfortunately they where too close for the focusing mechanism.

Kenidjack Valley

Here is a couple of images from yesterday Sunday 15th November. We went for a walk down through kenidjack valley our local area and we saw the big four of the Raptor family again. Lisa captured these images of a Common Buzzard taking off from a rock face near the coastal end of the valley. I think a Buzzard is always worth a shot and these two are amongst the best we have taken so far.

Drift

A couple of days ago I went down to Drift with the hope of photographing the Whooper Swan. Unfortunately no Whooper but whilst in the car park this Buzzard did a low pass so as the camera was in hand I couldn't resist a quick blast with the Nikon. Note the throat, this bird has had a good feed.

Archived birds in West Cornwall

This post relates to the photo's I have uploaded to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust photogroup site. They are archival and will add some content to the blog while I continue to get my head around the art of blogging and page layouts. I photographed this Buzzard from my Garden. The farmer was cutting his hay field and seventeen Buzzards were competing for the dead mice.So if you want to photograph Buzzards find a hay field .


The Tufted duck was photographed on a Cornwall Wildlife Trust field Trip and the Snowy Owl is the Owl that has been in West Cornwall until recently.

This Kestrel was photographed at Botallack Cliffs, a great place for kestrels as you can get above them whilst they are hovering around the cliffs and photograph them above and below.

This is one of my favourite shots of a wren carrying food to its young.The sign of things to come.

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