What have you seen

Fed up sitting here trawling through page after page and looking for inspiration for a September trip to France and I thought, 'I know what I'll do, share a pic'.

I think I want to go to the La Brenne area, hence a seperate post.

Back to more interesting things....I find it a struggle to get any colour into a Cormorant, but yesterday I had a little luck.

greylag.  Amazing take off photo & could see the eye colour really well on the other.   Managed to see the squirrel’s photos today as only a small black square yesterday when clicked on view to see larger image. Enjoy France wherever you stay.

Greylag, not sure September would be the best time to see Le Brenne. Maybe somewhere near an estuary for wader watching or a coast for sea watching in which case choose Brittany for the sea and somewhere like Ile Noirmoutier for waders. It has a great estuary and you can get quite close to the birds. There's also a small reserve on the island, in the main town, viewable from the elevated path that runs along side it.

Have given some more info on your post. Hope it helps.

OP 

Thanks for that, you are endorsing another comment given, saying that May would be a better option.  Think I will listen and obey.

I will check out your suggestion ...Noirmoutier.

Sitting by the Kingfisher pool this morning not having seen one perch for a while, when this turned up......seems to make my day.

Wow greylag so jealous 😆. Aren't they beautiful? The New Zealand kingfisher is much easier to spot, the site in the open far more and they're even by the sea! But soooo much duller plumage I had to be convinced it was a kingfisher 😂

None of the stuff I wanted to see, otters, golden eagles, sea eagles and red squirrels but on the up side did see and photo a lesser spotted woodpecker, haven't seen one in years.

L.S. Woodpecker, wow. I haven't seen one for years either, and it wasn't a good view then.

Would love to see your photo, Oneputt, when you get chance. 😊

Home over the weekend so will upload then

Hope you've seen what you wanted to see, will look forward to the pics.

Meanwhile, still at home, I took a photo from our kitchen window yesterday. We had a record number of bluetits visiting but I only managed to get three in view. This year, we had three successful nest boxes containing bluetits and a great tit family. The blackbirds are still going strong with fresh broods and we have a daily robin visiting who is just losing his/her juvenile colours.