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Had a walk to Arcot today after the dry weather lately I was able to explore areas that I haven't been able to get to until now.
Didn't see any deer, the main reason for the trip. Watched a Grey Herron feeding by the reeds. Saw a mute swan on the nest and saw my first mouse size mammal on the bank of a stream but missed the photo opportunity.
We seem to have plenty of yellowhammer in our area I've photos of them in several different locations or the same one is following me around. Saw a Thrush as well today. Two pheasants broke cover in front of me managed to get a snapshot of both. The rabbits were out in force actually moving around chasing each other, makes a change from the sitting munching grass photos.
One rabbit came so close I took the photo without using any zoom.
Since taking up wildlife photography last year I've just been wearing clothing from my wardrobe last year when I started I was just using my phone camera to take insect photos.
As winter came and I bought a bridge camera which allowed me to start taking photos of birds and mammals I started wearing darker generally grey clothing.
Now I've gone completely over the top and bought camouflage clothing, green cargo trousers, a woodland camouflage hoodie, one of those wide brim bush hats and some of that netting to hide my face and break up outlines a bit. The best bit of clothing I bought was a vest/waistcoat with a flecktarn camouflage pattern it has fourteen pockets so I can carry every thing I need for a trip out even water proof clothing as it has a large pocket at the back.
Its great to be out and about in fields and woods and know that you have a decent chance of getting near your subjects as has happened recently with the roe deer and pheasants.
Came across a pair of Roe Deer. Quite exiting changing position and managed to get a nice photo.
During a walk this morning I saw possibly two birds of prey. One bird flew away the other landed in the farmers field. After a few long range photos it took off flying around my position it was mobbed by some birds that flew out of the woods at the edge of the field. It came back around and landed in nearly the same place only to take off again and get mobbed again this time it flew off into the distance.
I continued my walk up the side of the field and found an area strewn with tufts of grey fur putting two and two together I think that bird has caught a rabbit here....a couple of meters away there was the rabbit, then I notice another dead rabbit. Two rabbits within a few meters of each other. I could not stay any longer and had to head off home but as a was leaving and knowing that I will have to go back later today I marked myself a spot next to the fence where I know I can see the dead rabbit patch from a few meters away.
This was a new area for me to go to. I'm doing quite a bit of reading, field craft, animal behaviour etc. And I was looking on Google maps at my area and I thought that a good place to go wildlifing would be a wooded area by the side of a motorway looking at the map there always seems to be motorway one side farmers field on the other. Pleased I went will be going back to watch the dead rabbit patch.
A nice clear evening and I decided to go hole watching.(its easier than bird watching they don’t flap about.) In an area I’ve looked at before there is a long ditch down the side of a field, there are lots of rabbit size holes and several larger holes on the way there I took a couple of snapshots of a rabbit.
