Birdsoftheheath

A family of Blue Tits has fledged in our garden (or possibly Sue & Peter's!) They are regularly visiting the suet on the feeding station in front of Linda's office window. The fine weather has brought dozens of bees (and hornets!) to the garden, including these cute little individuals on the manuka.

A few developing sunspot groups this lunchtime: NB! I use special filters - never look at or photograph the Sun directly!

While Linda and I were enjoying a glass of fizz in Sue and Peter's delightful garden, a pair of Common Terns flew across: although I had my camera, I was too slow for a photo. Happily, though, a single bird flew west over our garden today!

A couple of photos of last night's Moon. Some people have contacted me to ask why the phase below is called a 'first quarter Moon' when it looks like a half Moon. It's quite straight forward really: as the Moon waxes (grows) from a thin crescent it reaches the stage- for the first time in its 28 day cycle - wh...

The sunset sky was totally clear and bright last night, so I couldn't resist grabbing a few more shots of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus: all four of Jupiter's Galilean moons were on show!