Greater Manchester Birds Flickr Group

Here's the latest photos from my Greater Manchester Birds Flickr group:

Please feel free to join the Greater Manchester Birds group on Flickr.

Greater Manchester Birds Flickr Group

I've recently reactivated my interest in using Flickr to publish my own photos to a wider audience. In the process of doing so, I've created a new Flickr group for any bird photographs taken in Greater Manchester. Here's a sample digest of some of the more recent additions from the many great photographers we have in the region:

Please feel free to join the Greater Manchester Birds group on Flickr.

Dunham Massey Park

While the weather was still so good, Sarah and I decided to go out for an evening stroll around Dunham Massey Park tonight - we'd been laying drainage pipes in our back garden in sweltering temperatures for the last two days and so we deserved a break!

There weren't many birds about but at least Sarah got to hear the Green Woodpecker if not actually see one.  She was quite taken with a noisy little Wren and a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers feeding young, as well as the countless cute baby chicks, squirrels, rabbits and deer.  It now seems spring has long since sprung.

I didn't take many photos (for once) but here's a selection of some of the best: