A rare bird.

Well not really rare but rare in our garden!  A Goldcrest  (Regulus regulus)  Europes smallest bird.  In fact over the last 40 years they have increased slightly in breeding range and therefor in numbers.  This is a rapidly grabbed shot through the window as it pottered about in the Osmanthus delavayii  (Sorry don't know a common name) beside
the feeding station.

Clickychick and I had agreed to get up early and go down to the lake for
some shots at dawn (or thereabouts).  So we were up and out early and
down at the lake before the sun was over the horizon.  Not a spectacular
 dawn the sky was too clear for colour on the clouds.  However some good shots were taken.  We decided to call in at the local farm shop for a couple of  things and ended up having having a coffee in the cafe as well.

Over coffee we both thought the panorama of Blencathra and the fells round Keswick  was worth trying for.  So it was back down the road to Troutbeck where we had s second photographic session.  Despite all these good scenic shots I just had to go for the Goldcrest as we so seldom see them and never before with the chance to  photograph one.