Garden Wildlife UK

First trip out since before Christmas was always going to be a bit of a snap happy affair, and so it turned out. Sorry!
After the early morning happiness of Blackbirds back in the garden when I went to thaw the bird baths (as well as House Sparrows and a Robin) the choice of where to go on a bright, cold (minus 6!) morning weighed slightly on my mind. I decided not to go too far, because a lot of the roads around here avoid modern fads like gritting trucks and the like!
The initial plan was an hour looking for Kingfishers, then an hour at the Trailway for winter thrushes and the like..... just a heads up... I didn't make it to the Trailway!!

I hope you enjoy




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Well you made the most of it PB, sooo many great photo's. Some cracking kingfisher photo's along with the other tricky ones, treecreeper and goldcrest I bet it took longer to sort the photo's than take them

SnappyMac wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 6:21 pm Well you made the most of it PB, sooo many great photo's. Some cracking kingfisher photo's along with the other tricky ones, treecreeper and goldcrest I bet it took longer to sort the photo's than take them

Cheers Snappy, on a couple I even had the "yes, nailed it" feeling as I took them lol. There were 4 Goldcrest, a pair of Treecreepers, and 3 possibly 4 Kingies
Well I took just over 1000, and started fiddling with them about 2 ish. Was all done before Mrs PB got home at 5:30. I invested in a new pc in the Cyber Monday sales in November, so instead of 2 minutes to run LR denoise, it's now 10-20 seconds . Bleedin' typical I've only been out about 3 or 4 times since to utilise it lmao

A tremendous collections of images . I was minded to select a favourite but the choice was too difficult
Thank you for taking the time to present them.

Thanks Jack, I've struggled to pick a favourite too, one of the kingies in flight I think has to be the one

Nice to see you finally got your settings right....bye heck man no wonder you never made it to the trailway! Absolutely brilliant collection of photos. Nice to see you kept them to a minimum ...hey who wouldnt get carried away with kingies and goldcrest galore!!! Well done and thanks for sharing PB

Brilliant set of photos PB.

Linda257 wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 10:21 pm Nice to see you finally got your settings right....bye heck man no wonder you never made it to the trailway! Absolutely brilliant collection of photos. Nice to see you kept them to a minimum ...hey who wouldnt get carried away with kingies and goldcrest galore!!! Well done and thanks for sharing PB

Thanks Linda, was a particularly fine morning lol

Willpar wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 11:18 pm Brilliant set of photos PB.

Thanks William

Very nice PB. Still to get a decent shot of a kingy