Today was a good day for new faces. I'll come to the main topic in a moment, but the first surprise was down at the pond this morning. The flock of greylags were there as usual, but settled among them was one goose who stood out from the rest. It's a bar-headed goose. It seemed to be the only one there, and it's certainly not a species I've seen on the pond previously. 
A couple of days ago I posted about a greater spotted woodpecker. I've been keeping my eyes peeled to see if I could find which of the innumerable tree holes was its home. I obviously haven't been doing a good job. It turns out it's in a tree in the corner of the car park at work. :faint: The female is doing the feeding.
You can see how they get their name from this shot.
The rest of the photos are various points in the day… this could become an on-going saga; at least until the bird has flown.
There was one other unexpected spot today… a common lizard crossing the pavement outside the local farm shop. No photo of that I'm afraid, but I'll close with an early evening picture of the most familiar face on the blog: Shutterbug, in warm sunshine.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
gdare
24 May 2012I am not sure I've ever seen that kind of goose before :left:
Suddenly a lot of woodpeckers around, you must be happy for that 😀
Words
24 May 2012Darko, they're not native to the UK, so it is probably an escapee. The woodpeckers are great (if a little evasive).