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Not good photography weather again so i have been out to see my favorite friendly robin. Always willing to sing for food.
Taken on board the dome car on the Grand Canyon Railway.
Taken with a Olympus OM-G with a Zuiko 50mm f1.8 lens using Fuji Acros 100 film.
A closer in picture of a little bird singing away on a post at Wallasey Golf Club / North Wirral Coastal Park. I wasn't really sure what bird it was, I thought Pipit or maybe Corn Bunting, but it has been identified as a Skylark.
Info from British Garden Birds: The Skylark population has plummeted, consequently, it is on the RED LIST as a bird of high conservation concern.
The decline is most likely caused by the move to winter sowing of cereals, which deters late-season nesting attempts and may reduce winter survival because there is less stubble, such as barley and wheat, and also the use of pesticides, which kills the insects needed to feed the young. Some farms are now leaving areas of bare unsown patches in their fields to help Skylarks find food to feed their young.
Walking a path through field I couldn't help but the spring song of these tiny frogs. As I approached the large puddle (vernal pool) where they were singing the sound became deafening. I finally located one in good light, laid down in the wet grass and waited for him to sing again.
At only one inch long and weighing less than 1/4 oz, they are tiny indeed. But the sound they make is loud and a welcome sign of spring.
I took this picture of this robin singing his wee heart out on a jaggy bramble bush on Portencross Road on Thursday afternoon.
Photo © George Crawford.