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With increasing light and no rain till the afternoon, it was a good opportunity to check out the herd of Fallow deer at the Deer park in Attingham Hall.
Before getting to the herd I found a reasonable flock of Redwing enjoying the early morning sun feeding in one of the many Yew trees around the main path to the house. This included one of the largest Tit flocks encountered to date, which included not one but two Nuthatch and a couple of Goldcrests. Now trying to take pictures from bright light into dark undergrowth was a none starter, for today at least. Tomorrow looks a bit more promising so I shall see!
I continued over the suspension bridge into to woodland walk area, this was very disappointing with very few birds found mind you lots of arguing Jays and Magpies kept me searching for that elusive late warbler perhaps! My initial entry into the Deer Park was a little disappointing as the area I normally find the older stags roaring and fighting was unusually quite today, it was not until I had reached the end of the wood where it slopes back down to the House that sightings started to improve, Most of the groups were made up of young bucks and Does not yet Hareemed, Strangely there was only one good aged stag with an impressive set of antlers hunkered down in a small hollow under one of the Oak trees. I left him alone after one or two shots, to move down towards the bridge where there was a large gathering of Fallow feeding under the trees out in the open.
So onward to Venus Pools, with a nice show of shoveller in flight, providing a good bit of colour to an otherwise monochrome pool.
Paul
Before getting to the herd I found a reasonable flock of Redwing enjoying the early morning sun feeding in one of the many Yew trees around the main path to the house. This included one of the largest Tit flocks encountered to date, which included not one but two Nuthatch and a couple of Goldcrests. Now trying to take pictures from bright light into dark undergrowth was a none starter, for today at least. Tomorrow looks a bit more promising so I shall see!
I continued over the suspension bridge into to woodland walk area, this was very disappointing with very few birds found mind you lots of arguing Jays and Magpies kept me searching for that elusive late warbler perhaps! My initial entry into the Deer Park was a little disappointing as the area I normally find the older stags roaring and fighting was unusually quite today, it was not until I had reached the end of the wood where it slopes back down to the House that sightings started to improve, Most of the groups were made up of young bucks and Does not yet Hareemed, Strangely there was only one good aged stag with an impressive set of antlers hunkered down in a small hollow under one of the Oak trees. I left him alone after one or two shots, to move down towards the bridge where there was a large gathering of Fallow feeding under the trees out in the open.
So onward to Venus Pools, with a nice show of shoveller in flight, providing a good bit of colour to an otherwise monochrome pool.
Paul
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