Ryans Field Part 2

My visit to Ryans Field pm yesterday was time well spent with good shows from the Avorcet shown in yesterdays blog ,  A fine male Pintail was also showing well along with more regular local birds such as the Grey Heron, Curlew, Black headed Gull, kingfisher, Black tailed Godwit, Shell Duck, Lapwings and Redshank that are all posted either above or below

Sunday morning at Ryan's field

I called in at Ryan's field again this morning looking to catch the Spoonbill fishing but I guess I was a bit early as the Spoonbill though present spent most of the time that I was there sleeping with its head and bill resting on its back,  Golden Plover stole the show flying in in large numbers to be followed by around a hundred Lapwing,  A small flock of five or six rarer Greenfinch were next to show perching briefly on one of the bank trees.  Daily residents such as a Lone Curlew, several Black -headed Gulls were as always busy fishing for shrimps, and an amorous male Redshank made several attempts to mate with a couple of un-cooperative female The Spoonbill finally decided that it didn't want to be left out of the photo shoot  and made a small effort to catch a few shrimps before flying off over the estuary,   All in all, A pleasant pre-Sunday breakfast visit !!

Tehidy birds

It was a fine day here in Cornwall yesterday and I went back to Tehidy Country Park in the company of Peter Tonkin and Bob Sharples,  [ There is always a down side ! ]  We were all looking for portraits of fishing Kingfisher but it was not to be,  We had some good entertainment and images provided by other local birds which included a Gold Crest,  Four lovely Jay, A feisty little Wren that was fishing for fresh water shrimp, A black headed gull in winter colours that wanted the pond all to itself, The pair of resident Moorhen that were busy preening each other, A grey wagtail paid us a short visit, The ever present Mallard and finally it seemed like the rarely present Kingfisher that moved on a lot quicker than it arrived leaving me with just one exit flight shot and thoughts that it didn't like the current 50% cover of duckweed on the pond that was obviously making fishing a lot trickier than other ponds in the area.