Little Egret
 

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Cattle Egret
 

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Little Owl
 

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Little Owls do well in the area and are easy to find.
 

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I found this dead Little Owl just down the road from my house by the side of the road, could have been hit by a car.
 

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Whiskered Tern photographed in the Brenne
 

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 Cuckoo’s were seen and heard on my morning walks around the hamlet although they were difficult to get close too, as they always are.
 

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Looks like a winner to me
 

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Red backed strikes wouldn’t play ball with me I struggled to get any good shots of them, they always kept their distance.
 

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Last year I didn’t notice any Red backed shrikes around the hamlet but this year they seem to be all over the place.
 

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I counted six different pairs all within walking distance from the house.
 

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Hoopoe
 

On my morning walks I regularly heard the sound of Hoopoe but locating them in the heavy wooded woods is difficult.
 

I spent many hours trying to locate them. I asked my neighbours if they had seen any,
 

some had seen them several times and others had not.  One evening as I was sat in the garden drinking a beer one flew past me.
 

 It had been feeding at the bottom of my garden and I didn’t notice it.
 

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This one was photographed in my garden two years ago
 

In the end I decided to visit a friend’s house a few miles away to photograph them. He has them around his house most years.
 

When I arrived at his place I quickly spotted my first Hoopoe on the roof opposite an old barn.
 

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As I watched I realised they had a nest in the stone wall and were feeding chicks.
 

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Using my car as a hide I positioned it on the other side of the road and took some shots, I couldn’t photograph the Hoopoe in the positions I wanted it in, so I didn’t take many, just a few record shots.
 

Night Herons
 

I visited the Brenne again to try and get some better photographs of the Night Herons, they are better than last year but again the weather was against me. Still not the shots I wanted.
 

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Hunting Fox
 

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I can across this hunting Fox on my short walk around the hamlet and a few Roe deer.
 

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At this time of year the Frogs in our garden pond are very vocal as they compete for females.
 

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Morning walks
 

Most morning I went for a stroll with my camera doing a loop around the small hamlet, on one occasion I encountered a Pine Martin crossing the road and running along the hedge-row but missed the shot they are around and seen regularly but are difficult to photograph.
 

You can hear Golden Orioles singing, but it was weeks before I eventually saw one but didn’t manage a photograph of them either. I eventually managed to find a site that they seem to prefer.

Roe deer were a regular feature on my morning walks but again I never managed the clear shots I wanted. I did want shots of them in the rain so one morning as the rain came down I ventured out.
 

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Purple Heron
 

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