The usual haunts

RSPB Greylake

This visit turned out to be a one-species trip  –  Little Grebe.

Like this ...

... now you try

Gulp

Where's she gone?

Catching up

Through some grass dimly

(after 1 Corinthians 13:12  –  with apologies)

Exit

RSPB Ham Wall

There was no sign of Great Egret on this visit.

Black-headed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Little Grebe

There are lots of mosquitoes on the Somerset Levels this year.  Land has remained flooded for weeks and this has helped raise the population.

I'd like to share with you how I put on my artistic-thinking cap and then made some careful decisions to obtain these next two images of a Little Grebe youngster.  That's what I would like to do, but the cold reality is that I accidently set the camera wrongly.  I shoot in RAW and I know that Photoshop is really for improving images post-production, not for salvaging them.  Nevertheless, I had a play and the outcome is ...

Stourhead

 

Canada Goose

This is one of this year's youngsters.

Robin

Caught unprepared

I encountered this bird for the first time last month and published images in my posting dated 24 August 2012.  We can now see that it's lost its left foot and a claw on the right foot.  Conversations with fellow early morning visitors indicate that this loss had occurred since my previous sighting.  I shall be following its fortunes and will report here.

Nuthatch ("Veni, ...")

("..., vidi ...")

("..., edi.")

(after Julius Caesar, or sombody  –  with more apologies!)

Having watched from the bushes, this little fellow looked as if he was going to ape the Nuthatch.  He gave up though.

Marsh Tit

Next, an often spotted and sometimes noisy species:

Homo sapiens ♀

At the farthest end of the gardens I met this Robin.  It hadn't seen it before.  As it's much lighter there than where I usually get to photograph them, I'm hoping I can get this one 'on side' to become one of my winter models.