At Clumber Park

National Trust's Clumber Park estate was where I spent this morning - partly to see if I could spot the elusive Hawfinch but mostly to see some friends who I hadn't seen in a very long time.

Low cloud and even lower light and persistant rain put the mockers on most photography but the birds could only be spotted by looking stright up high into the leafless Oak and spiny leafed Cedar canopy.  As I did so an image or two came to mind. This being the most mindblowing...



I wish I'd been able to take more but the rain was coming down too hard.

There are in the woods around the Chapel a number of ad hoc feeding stations and there I saw a great varoety of birds close up.  Again the light was against me but this Coal Tit was a star, esp at ISO 6400.




As usual more here on my Flickr account