Last weekend I had a short holiday at Center Parcs and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of wildlife there. Not long after arriving a small flock of crossbill flew over and a minute into my search for breakfast the nest day I had been within a couple of meters of a treecreeper (no camera…
Some more shots from Donna Nook. A female seal gets aggressive. A reflection shot. And a nice pair of whiskers! Sadly everywhere there are young being raised, there are are some that don’t make it. But nature is not one to waste and the gulls are quick to take advantage. The greater black gulls are…
My trip to Donna Nook was pretty productive and I have enough photos for at least a couple more posts. Including this one of a mother and pup. A female making a racket. Another lying around. I got a close up of a seal being aggressive to another. Some more of the pups. Some seal…
Back in December I headed up to Donna Nook seal colony and took loads of photos, which will take a few posts to cover. I’ll start with a few of the seal pup photos. Cuteness alert!
When in Wales in November, between visits to Gigrin, we did some landscape photography around Elan valley. Landscapes aren’t something I do much but I had a go at a waterfall. I even tried a slow shutter speed. The valley plays host to anumber of reservoirs and dams, which have water cascading over them There…
Following on from the last post in Epping Forest, later on in the same day I came across some common toadlets in the leaf litter. They certainly qualify as cute in my book. I also found this Rosel’s Bush Cricket, this individual was one of the less common long winged forms. On a trip to…
Back In July I was at Wake Valley Pond one morning when I came across a southern hawker dragonfly that had just emerged. I got some close ups of it. And some different angles.
A few more from Lanzarote. Having hired a car the second day of exploring lead us the Salinas del Janubio where the bird reports said black stilts occured, something I had never seen in the wild before. After a short walk along the coastal side of the lake I spotted some. With some careful stalking…
The recent story on the spanish sparrow in hampshire reminded me that I ahd some photos of the species on my hard drive. There were plenty in the towns in lanzarote where I took these photos. These photos were taken from the patio of the apartment we were staying at. They were often feeding on…
I moan about many things in my garden. Backing on to the A12, with very little in the way of bird life (with the untouched bird feeders to prove it), no hedgehogs or thrushes and the odd cat wandering through. However for a few nights in late May and early June one of my favourie…