Due to pulled muscle in my back I have only had short local trips out for a while. I have had to resort to carrying fewer lenses and using my lighter Nikon dslr body which is normally kept in my bag as a back-up. Long drives were out of the question so we popped to Allerthorpe Wood where this male Chaffinch "posed" for us. I would have liked a better background to the shot but blurred it as much as I could with an f5.6 lens.

Moving on a Long-tailed tit played hide and seek with us.

Deeper in the wood there were two Great spotted woodpeckers - one quickly flew away but the other stayed for a minute or so.

The next day we walked to a local wood. There were some lambs in a field on the way.This one was in the company of two Jackdaws.

On reaching the wood we saw this Bee-fly

We could hear a Woodpecker drumming in the distance and there were quiet a few Chiffchaffs about. On the way back home we spotted a Mistle thrush.

These couple of days enjoying short walks did my back complaint wonders and I was eager to get out again.
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