Today at Rainham Marshes there was a little grebe sitting on its nest. I sat on the boardwalk near the nest and took a number of photos. Apparently to start with she was constantly on and off the nest, possibly due to the people walking past (its the only path/boardwalk you can walk along so…
DetailsWhile on the Forest School Course last weekend, a member of the group found a Glow worm (Lampyris noctiluca) larva, and he was christened Gary! I got some close ups. When it felt threatened he retracted his head, which at one point made me think it had been knocked off somehow! It would also adopted…
DetailsOn Tuesday I got word there was a grasshopper warbler about, but it took 3 attempts to hear and then finally see it, which was my first ever view of the species. I then staked it out yesterday evening, when the light was much poorer of course, and got a couple of OK grab shots…
DetailsThe bird I was after at Loch Garten was a crested tit. My friend Ian was kind enough to lend me his 7D and 600mm prime lens to help me out! (see his and Paulines excellent images here: Pauline and Ian’s Zenfolio). With his help I managed a few shots, including this one. As you…
DetailsA quick photo of a coal tit.
A quick shot from the Loch Garten feeders. I went all the way up to the Highlands of Scotland and photographed….a robin.
It looked so nice in the sun I couldn’t resist pressing the shutter!
Here are a couple of landscape from the Cairngorms last month. First up a panorama on the road back from Lecht.
and another shot from further along the road.
When up in a Cairngorms I hoped to see Mountain Hares. I managed a few shots, and this was probably the best shot.
I was expecting shots more like this!
I even had another one pose briefly by the road.
It moved off and poked its head over the snow.
I found my first reptiles of the year this morning: some slow worms.
They were fairly sluggish, at least to start with, so I got a few shots of them before they slithered off.
