Over the last few weeks I have been keeping the feeders stocked up as the temperature starts to drop and the great tits, blue tits and sparrows have begun to return, along with a chaffinch or 2. Hopefully some more interesting birds will appear as the winter progresses. Last Friday I created a set up…
Yesterday I had an afternoon to myself, so headed down to Roding Valley Recreation ground where there has been a red-necked grebe staying for a week or so. It would be a new bird species for me and there would be a chance of a decent photo based on reports from other birders/photographers. I headed…
Had a quick family visit to Rainham Marshes this morning and it was an enjoyable couple of hours. I didn’t have the time to put my usual effort in, but had some good sightings that are worth posting about. I started off saying hello to Howard who was set up on the sea wall and…
A couple of weekends ago I was planning to go to Dorset to find some raft spiders, but for various reasons I had to cancel that trip and instead I ended up in Yorkshire. The first day was spent up on the North York Moors and the date was the 12th of August, the start…
On Monday I decided to have a day out with the family, and we ended up heading to RHS Hyde Hall. I have only visited a few time before, and never on a sunny day in summer. On my previous visits I had suspected the ‘new’ lake there would be good for dragonflies, and I…
Day 3 of my holiday (4/7/17) and I had booked a trip with Marine Discovery Penzance for the afternoon, but the weather was grey a drizzly. I tested my camera gear (and my technique with the new set up!) on a house sparrow. I was on the Marine DIscovery boat soon after I arrived in…
The second day of my holiday was a bit damp and a trip to Seaton beach (the one in Cornwall) was a disappointment – grey shingle with a nice river, sadly covered in double figures of dogs ensuring there was no bird life to be seen! The cliffs behind the sea wall look interesting botanically…
I have just come back from a lovely family holiday in Cornwall and while it was not a wildlife photography trip I did sneak in some photography most days. The first trip out (on Sunday) was to Looe, a lovely fishing village on the South Coast. I visited many times as a child, but it…
As you may have gathered from my last post I have traded in most my Pentax gear and switched to Olympus, giving me superior effective focal length and much better auto focus. I had a trip to Rainham Marshes today with my 1 year old in the buggy, so no serious waiting around, but still…
A couple of weeks ago I had a day on the Isle of Sheppey to enjoy some of the wildlife found there. The south of the island is mostly grazing marsh and is rich in wildlife, especially waders and raptors. I took 100s of photos on that day, but the highlight was a spoonbill seen…