A bit late uploading these .. and the videos but .. that is because of my memory issues and I have two cameras, or had that day, to deal with.
I forgot about this non-professional camera!
Anyhoo .. we went out on a warm but very windy day .. which blew me about while I was filming with the zoom at full .. win .. chat! Lol.
This was on Walthamstow Wetlands .. or opposite Walthamstow Wetlands .. not sure if it is all the same place. Another place is called The Paddocks .. no .. just don't! It is on Ferry Lane in Walthamstow not far from Tottenham Hale.
While out we saw Shelducks, Oystercatchers and some Alder Flies, the latter I do not ever recall seeing before that day. Caddis Flies, yes. Alder Flies not so sure ..
Nothing much on this lake I normally check while out hunting things down but some ways off I see something that looks a lot like a Heron from where I was standing.
As I looked though it did not look right and looked too small, though it looked bigger than a Little Egret. In body mass at least.
I then zoomed in, after nearly not bothering, and see a beak like a Merganser, or Goosander, and then saw the chest and thought this looked more like a Cormorant.
Only the whole of its breast was pale.
Not being great on water foul but I do see a lot of Cormorants here they are normally black all over. I thought maybe the females have a pale breast like this one or even the youngsters.
When I got home I had a better look at the pictures, video and looked online and realised it was a Great Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo.
Do not know if this is a good spot or not, lol, waiting to hear back from one of my brothers who would know better than me. Probably not but at least it is another ticked of the very long list..
A few pictures and a video ...
My God the pictures are dreadful! Funny I nearly bought a new camera a month ago, starting to think I should have bought it now!
I am preoccupied with another blog subject that is about to get a little nuts.
The weather being highly variable and unpredictable has not helped my pursuit of British Wildlife, though the outcome of mad subject matter will help all my blogs no end in a few months time. Fingers crossed, lol.
A lone Lapwing was spotted along with a lone Shoveller, Canada Goose and one pair of what I first thought were Gadwalls but did not look right, lol.
Well it is going to be a busy year when it comes down to my corruption blog as a humongous great battle that is shocking, heart wrenching and two decades long is about go come to an end in a big way that will act like the catalyst of catalysts to everything I do on a rather big way. In the not too distant future by all accounts.
Still...I have to concentrate on what I started and get some work in!
So here is a Brimstone Butterfly and a few other early Spring, 2015, pictures and videos.
These always gone unnoticed by me until this year...do not aks me what they are called, lol.
This one was at Cottonmill Stream and as soon as I looked down and despite it being upside down and torn apart at both ends and missing a head that this was a young Grass Snake, Natrix ummm natrix helveticus? Cannot be bothered to look it up and the memory not working as it should lol, damn this Fibrofog malarkey!
Have to keep an eye out for these and I think an early morning raid, well camp out in reality, is in order to get more on these?
I got a surprise when I spotted this near my home and at first it looked so light I thought it was a Hooded Crow?!
I had not seen one of those since I was in Italy some years ago and my brain was confused because it should not have been there! But after looking at the video again I realised it was a Jackdaw! Buggering fool!
Still not used to seeing these and cannot remeber the last time I saw one ... couple of pictures and then a video ...
A little place I like to go to and even on a weekend it s dead!
A private road with no people around.... MARVELOUS! Quiet peaceful but for bird song and the occasional crop dusting light aircraft.
It also has three very good spot now for getting pictures and videos of wildlife and I know there are Stoats and I filmed and got some snaps of Linnets for the first time.
Good things should come of this spot, provided I dodge the latest attempts to leave me to starve to death and making me homeless while affected with a dozen parts of my body that present me with many pains, lol.
