Today we were going in to town for lunch but stopped off at Eastville Park for a quick walk around the lake where we saw a goldcrest, several long-tailed tits, a tawny owl, 2 grey herons, half a dozen cormorants and 5 mute swans (the most for some time). It wasn’t great light but good for the record.
Gold crest
Long-tailed tit
Tawny owl
Cormorant
Mute swan seemingly seeing off a newcomer
To make our lunch really worthwhile we headed for Brandon Hill in the centre of the city for another walk (we were anticipating a good lunch) where I had the opportunity for a few more nature photos. We saw another gold crest (no photo sadly). The stars of the show for me were the squirrels.
The lunch (littlefrench_bristol in Westbury Park) felt well earned and was well up to our expectations.
We treated ourselves to a lovely bottle of Chinon (just for the memories) and had a great chat with our taxi driver on the way home!
Martin Tayler's bird blog & nature photos 