Saturday, February 20, 2010

Owlage

Some quality owlage (of the Short-eared variety) at Cossington Meadows this afternoon, and about time too - I've been several times over the winter and not seen the bastards at all. Today, however, they performed very well in nice evening light. I even managed to get some reasonable photos of them, despite feeling decidedly inadequate in the company of at least half a dozen camouflage-jacketed 'proper' photographers with their matching camouflage-jacketed 'bucket' lenses:

At least three birds were present, and probably four, although I never saw all of them together. There were also two Barn Owls, but I didn't manage to get any shots of them.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

It was nothing to do with me!

Before anyone starts accusing me of interfering with elderly llamas....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8504000/8504150.stm

And if anyone has arrived on this blog by searching for leicester + llama or something similar, I'm afraid there are no cute photos of baby llamas in red pyjamas here. Just very occasional and often not very interesting stuff about birds. Sorry.