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Well I spent the afternoon searching for Collembola in local woodland, I wasn't going to do a bug upload today, but I really liked this little one. Now I'm sure this is a juvenile Allacma fusca, this one was about 1mm long at a guess, they do get a lot bigger than this. This shows a definite pink colouration and it will eventually become brown in colour.
For this I was experimenting with combinations of tubes and teleconverters, this I think was just 36mm of extension tubes on a 1.4x teleconverter and an F/5.6 aperture. I was also messing about with backdrops as well, this was a light grey card, thought it gave it a nice daytime feel :o)
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Thanks to Bugman below, yes it is indeed an Egyptian Goose.
According to Wikipedia - This close relative of the Shelduck was officially declared a pest in the UK in 2009. It is a largely terrestrial species, which will also perch readily on trees and buildings. It swims well, and in flight looks heavy, more like a goose than a duck, hence the English name.
According to me - there are several that live on the River Thames at Hampton but I have never seen one in a tree!