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Photo stream from Wood Lane Nature Reserve

Water rail, Blue tit, Coal tit, Mallard , Teal , Lapwing & Gull's ? " Enjoy ".

Wood Lane Nature Reserve " WLNR "

I spent a lovely few hours at wood lane nature reserve near Ellesmere in Shropshire yesterday, it made a nice change to get out to somewhere different  for a change & it's a place I will return to.

I must not forget to thank the dragon err I mean the wife for taking the time to drive me there ( she went shopping in Tesco's ) even she said that it's nicely laid out with a picnic area, well away from the main birdwatching areas, the only drawback is there are no toilet's, other than that  the place is really user friendly.

Both hides are KEY CODE locked, the code has to be applied for from the WLNR web site, the first hide near the car park was full !, on the scrape  it overlooked where a couple of shell duck, lapwing & some teal  I later found-out they where watching a lone water rail which turned out to be the bird of the day, lucky for me about an hour later I had the hide to myself, I had been told that the canny little bird would wait for other birds to use the feeders then come out to clean up any seed that had been dropped.

I hope you like the photo's I will post more tomorrow  

I have a busy week ahead, so I spent fri & sat snapping away at anything I saw so today is a big post- lots of photo's & few words - I hope you enjoy 

some of our smaller friends,

A quiet day at the park brought out some of our smaller friends, with the little Dunnock performing like a diva on the catwalk throwing it's head back, puffing out its chest & generally showing off, not the brightest of birds but cute non the less.

Next up are 2 first's for me ( most are first's cos iv'e only just started ha ha.) a red wing & song thrush. yes I have seen a thrush before but I have never Photographed one, for me it's important to get a good photograph otherwise I wouldn't have a clue what I had seen, as I said I am a novice.

Finally a quick shot of a Treecreper doing what it usually does - creeping up a tree .    

DUNNOCK

THIS IS MY BEST SIDE

THIS YEAR'S COLOURS NOW IN STOCK 

REDWING

SONG THRUSH

TREECREPER