Winter has arrived and it looks as though we’re set for plenty of wind and rain over the next week or so, I’m just hoping it’ll change before I break up for christmas in a couple of weeks. Here’s a picture of a Blue Tit from a week ago at Draycote Water, my local reservoir. On the calmest of days this place is often blowing a gale, so there are only a few select days when the water is calm enough for good photography, unfortunately it was not one of those days, so I chose to sit in the only hide and see what turned up at the feeders.

With the light quickly disappearing I managed to real off over 300 images of Blue Tits, Great tits, Chaffinches, Greenfinches and the odd friendly Robin before the warden came calling and told me I’ve got 10 minutes to leave and not to drive my car around the 10km track again as it is now banned, apparently it’s OK for fishermen to drive around because they have a lot of equipment, have they tried lugging a 600mm F4 around!