Birds flocking everywhere!!

Twenty metres form our house is the end of the spit of land on which we live. Despite it being the middle of winter, the days are mostly sunny and warm which makes it so much easier to train and enjoy the outdoor playground in which we live.

Today I'm suffering with a cold, so I took the time off training to take a few pictures of our neighbourhood, as well as a fair few of the neighbours.

As you can see, the snow has begun to fall on the mountains - the ski fields have opened so we'll be visiting them soon!


The water is clean so we eat the fish we catch here:

Pied stilts bob around taking food on the hoof:

Fortunately these birds are common here:

Kingfishers also work the area. They are one bird which has benefited from pine forestry - they successfully hunt food in forests as well as by water so we see heaps of these birds. It's quite hard getting close to one though: