Psilos Bird Journal
Saturday March 18th 2006
     
"A golden day"
     
Today I believe we were luckier than most of the people in the country as the north west enjoyed the best of the sunshine. Visited Mere sands once again looking for the kingfisher and sat in the hide in the sunshine it was very relaxing indeed. Sadly though, apart from a very fast flash past the kingfisher once again did not put in an appearnace. Not to be downhearted though as a visit to the feeding station did produce some interesting birds once again.
     

     
I seem tobe doing rather well for Song thrushes lately as I have seen quite a few. Usually they stay in the shadows but this one came out in the sun showing off his golden colours to best effect.

 
The water rail yet again put in several appearances and looked very striking in the sun.


The sun even makes the background colours glow providing a wonderful backdrop for this male reed bunting.

The long tailed tits were more elusive today and kept to a more moderate distance. The one time when they did come close I had to be content with just a couple of photographs as my battery took that precise moment to lose its charge, typical!


This photo I add because I thought it was such an unusual pose. When I first saw it it had its head pointing straight up wards and he stood like that for a full thirty seconds or so. As far as I could tell there were no other blackbirds nearby so I do not know what the purpose of the pose was.
Another black coloured bird that looked good today was the coot. With their jet black plumage and ruby red eyes they looked particularly good contrasted with the golden straw colour of the reeds. Also their reflections added an extra touch to the composition.