counting coots

Despite the weather dude on the Today programme telling me (specifically) that there would be sun yesterday it failed to materialise. Dull, windy, cold and very little in the way of birds beyond the regular gulls and ducks. I did however manage to locate a Chiffchaff, which was on it's own (not with it's Goldcrest mates) and didn't make a sound. Subsequently there was little that would stay still long enough to take a rubbish picture of.

Apart from a Coot in and industrial type juxtaposition. Which was so bad, it's not worth posting, but got me thinking...

Many of my fellow bloggowebbers are able to put up lovely photos of scenery of outstanding beauty which provoke much envy (http://begbits.blogspot.com/for example), so I thought I would give the equivalent for my humble little patch.

Beautiful eh? Especially the symmetry in the way two species of Crane are standing. Notice how the buds on the trees in the background are just popping through...

Late on, same time same place but a 50% increase in Geese.

And that dear reader, was yesterday.

Today, the sun is shining and I'm off out. Right now.