Birding walk round Walthamstow Wetlands in early March 2025

View across Lockwood reservoir

Starlings in a bush

Great Crested Grebe

Heron in flight

Female Common Pochard

Even numbers - three female and three male Tufted ducks

A pair of Great Crested Grebes were displaying

and then swam off!

Blue sky above the 1, 2, 3 path

Two Mute Swans on the Copper Mill stream

Lesser Black-backed gull

Cormorants in nests on Cormorant island

Close-up view of an Egyptian goose

Cormorant in breeding plumage

Male Tufted duck with reflection

 

Walk in Lee Valley Country Park on 23rd February 2025

I went by train from London to Cheshunt in order to go for a walk in Lee Valley Country Park towards the end of February and was hoping to see some wildlife.  It was an overcast day and there wasn't much around, but I enjoyed the day anyway.

Great Tit perching on a tree

Dunnock on the wall

Distant view of the Fisher's Green bird hide

Crows bothering a Buzzard

I love the design of electricity pylons!

Bare-branched trees on one of the islands

Great Crested Grebe in a hurry

Cormorant drying its wings

Twisted tree and another electricity pylon

and another!

Grey Heron balancing on a thin twig

Muntjac deer, coots and Teal

Weeping Willow tree at the edge of the river

My first visit to Warnham Nature Reserve on 17th February 2025 - Bullfinch, Brambling, Nuthatch, Siskins, Redpolls, Long-tailed Tits, Woodpecker, etc.

 I travelled to Horsham by train and it was a long walk to the reserve, but definitely well worth the effort

Long-tailed Tit and Blue Tit on a fatball feeder at the Bullfinch hide

Robin on top of a sawn-off tree trunk

Female Bullfinch in front of the Bullfinch hide

Male Blackbird listening to the sound of my camera

Female Chaffinch in twigs

Male Chaffinch in twigs

Reed Bunting on the ground

Reed Bunting on a log

Great Spotted Woodpecker on a log at the Woodpecker hide

Great Spotted Woodpecker on a bird feeder

Goldfinch checking out the bird feeder

Reed Bunting and Blue Tit at either side of the log

Male Pheasants in tall grass near the Sandpiper hide

A multitude of tall trees seen during a walk round the nature reserve

Song Thrush hiding in a pile of twigs

Male Pheasant on the ground in front of the Woodpecker hide

Nuthatch on a feeder

Rear view of a Long-tailed Tit

Hungry female Siskin

Male Siskin and Redpoll on opposite sides of the feeder

Goldfinch and Greenfinch

Goldfinch among twigs

Redpoll showing off its red head

Female Woodpecker

Female Siskin

Naughty Grey Squirrel!

Goldfinch in the tree

Goldfinch and male Brambling on a bird feeder

Greenfinch with seed decoration!

Fluffed-up Redpoll sitting on the ground

Male Siskin topping itself up with seed

Two Redpolls heading for snacks

Long-tailed Tit doing the same thing