A new Month, a new Day

November can be a grey Month, but today was warm and as the progressed was bright and Sunny, the first visitor to the garden feeders was a male Great Spotted Woodpecker, I had not seen one in the garden since last winter.

Woodpecker on feeder

Male Great spotted woodpecker

We walked into Ely so I decided to take my camera and was rewarded with plenty of sights first a steam engine traveling down the high street

Vintage Steam Engine

Steam Engine in Ely high street

Which was escorted by an Edwardian Policeman

Man dressed as an edwardian policeman

Edwardian Policeman escorting the Steam Engine

The we came upon a wedding at the cathedral where the wedding party arrived by horse and carriage.

Carriage pulled by two white horses

Wedding party arriving by carriage

The afternoon was spent at WWT Welney where I gave the 3:30 pm Swan talk and feed, this week to 85 people, there are lots of birds arriving now, lots of Golden Plover estimated around 2,000 birds, Kingfisher, Geese, lots of wading birds and of course the Whooper swans, I managed to get some more images, one of which is of these Geese landing

Geese landing on water

Graylag and Canada geese coming in to land at WWT Welney

And it is always worth waiting for a fenland sunset

Sun setting over water

the Sun sets over Welney

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