Trevose

Young Goldfinches feeding on thistles

This young Peregrine gave itself away by constantly calling

Juvinile Shag in a rough sea

Juvinile Shag with catch

A very confiding Turnstone allowed a very close approach

Turnstone

Turnstone

Bales at Trevose

A few recentish photos of a visit to Trevose Head on the North Cornwall Coast, a beautiful place & always something to find.

More Sandpipers

Buff Breasted Sandpiper

Buff Breasted Sandpiper

Buff Breasted Sandpiper

Buff Breasted & Curlew Sandpipers scrapping over a worm

Curlew Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Wheatear

Another day over at Davidstow airfield at the weekend to see what I could find & try to get some better shots of 'my' Buff Breasted Sandpiper and hopefully Curlew Sandpiper, even though I arrived fairly early there were already photographers onto the Buff Breast,so decided to drive around to see if I could find anything else, the usual Dunlin & Ringed Plover ( which I now check out a bit more after last years Semi Palmated Plover saga-I did,nt see it) and lots of Pipits & Pied  Wagtails., one or two White Wagtails and a couple of lingering Wheatear-the usual fare. Later on I eventually got the Buff Breasted Sandpiper & two Curlew Sandpipers together all to myself in reasonable light showing down to just a few feet-too close at times and managed some nice shots.

Buff Breasted Sandpiper

I was chuffed to find this stunning juvinile Buff Breasted Sandpiper  on Davidstow airfield this afternoon ( 21st Sept) a rare vagrant fron arctic North America, but an annual visitor to Britain with one or two usually turning up here at what is probably one of the most reliable sites for this species  in the country.(I just made that up but its probably true) I was able to get a few half decent photos of  a fairly approachable bird..

Davidstow

Juvinile Ringed Plover portrait

Ringed Plover with Cranefly

Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Dunlin

Dunlin

Dunlin

Linnet reflection

Pied Wagtail & reflection

After work on late afternoons & early evenings when I can I,ve been taking my usual trips over to Davidstow airfield hoping to find a rare wader or two,( no luck as yet and someone else will probably find a goodie before me anyway ,but who knows I may stumble across a mega like a Killdeer or Sharp Tailed Sandpiper or even a first for Britain like a Willet ,I can dream cant I) but I,m happy enough for now photographing the Ringed Plover & Dunlin which are present in small numbers & anything else I come across.

Emperor

Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)

I found this Emperor Dragonfly ovipositing on aquatic vegitation close to the surface on one of the pools at Davidstow in Cornwall , I must have looked a bit odd as I took off my shoes and socks and rolled up my trousers to wade into the water with my tripod and camera, but it had to be done.

Toad in the hole

I rescued this Toad from the lawn mower last week, I had to find a log with a hole in to take his portrait did'nt I.

A few recent photos of Insects & Spiders.

Small Red Damselflies at Goss Moor.

Emerald Damselfly at Goss Moor

Tube Web Spider species at Goss Moor.

Common Blue Damselfly taken at Roadford Lake.

Cranefly at Roadford Lake- these are everywhere but not east to get a half decent photo.

Marbled White taken at Roadford Lake-always nice to see.

Meadow Brown at Roadford

Spider eating a Blue Damselfly taken at Roadford.

A pair of lovely Brimstone Butterflies spent a while in our wild flower border.

Green Orb Spider taken in our hedge.

Caterpiller of the Angle Shades Moth (I think) taken in the garden

Soldier Beetle, very common.

Bad weather and work have curtailed my photography in recent weeks, but on the few good days when i've been able to get out and about I have managed to find a few critters to photograph.A trip to Goss Moor with the Cornwall Wildlife Trust photographic group was a nice day out and  the few sunny evenings we have had I've been in the garden or at Roadford resevoir where I've been crawling around in the undergrowth hoping to find one or two good subjects to photograph.