Snipe well camouflaged at Leighton Moss, but a helpful birder and his telescope discovered them for us. Handsome as they come into breeding plumage. Teal and tufted duck, marsh harrier beyond the reed beds.
Close and confiding, begging for food, a robin.
Fringing the reed beds were alder trees heavy with catkins and a rose bush with several bedraggled clots of something fibrous that had been drenched, frozen and thawed through winter weather. What were they?
Close and confiding, begging for food, a robin.
Fringing the reed beds were alder trees heavy with catkins and a rose bush with several bedraggled clots of something fibrous that had been drenched, frozen and thawed through winter weather. What were they?
These matted fibres are robin's pin cushion. In my book Cumbrian Contrasts, you'll find an image of Rose bedegar gall on dog rose, Rosa canina.
Tree creeper on a alder tree where siskin fed amongst the cones.
Scarlet elf cup is a joy to find on a February day when it gives a splash of bright colour.
Tree creeper on a alder tree where siskin fed amongst the cones.
Scarlet elf cup is a joy to find on a February day when it gives a splash of bright colour.
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