LOCAL
WILDLIFE PHOTO GALLERY
JANUARY
- FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010
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JANUARY
2010
The
famous Emsworth Spotshank at Nore Barn - 28 January
2010

Patrick
Murphy's photo of a female Blackcap in his garden 29
January 2010

Tony
Wootton took this superb photo of a Black-necked Grebe on
a solar powered boat cruise around Chichester Harbour on
Jan 24.

.... and
this one of Grey Plover in flight

The
leaves of Italian Lords-and-Ladies (Arum italicum ssp
italicum) were showing well on the river bank in Palmer's
Road Copse.
We had an
amzing influx of Fieldfares during cold weather in
January 2010

I
also had Redwing in the garden, mainly interested in the
Honeysuckle berries.

A
male Blackcap was another garden regular, mostly feeding
on the half apples hanging from the tree

Black-tailed
Godwit G+YR has been an Emsworth regular since Nov 2005 .

Black-tailed
Godwit RYL+RLY was ringed in Kent in autumn 2005, since
when it has been commuting between Emsworth and
Kent
Black-tailed
Godwit ROL RLR was ringed Kent and was a reular in
Emsworth during 2009-10 winter.

An
exceptional flock of 450 Knot was on the mudflats off
Nore Barn, Emsworth on 9 January 2010

Knot in
flight, with white wing bars and dark leading edge on
wings showing well

Fieldfares
feasting in Cherry-crab tree in Lumley Road garden - 8
January 2010

Snowfall
in Emsworth in January 2010

A
Song Thrush ws one of many birds in the garden during the
winter weather in January 2010

Here
is a typical snowy scene on Brook Meadow in January
2010

Tony
Wootton got this great image of a male Bearded Tit on
Thorney Litle Deeps on 7 January 2010

A
wintery scene along the River Ems from the south bridge
in January 2010
T
A cluster
of gulls on the snowy raft on Slipper Millpond

Chaffinches
were in the garden in large numbers looking for food
