The day it snowed
January 5th 2026, the snow started falling and the birds flocked to our feeders … More The day it snowed
January 5th 2026, the snow started falling and the birds flocked to our feeders … More The day it snowed
Peace and happiness to all. … More Happy New Year
It’s been a while since I’ve been up to the reservoir. I checked back through the images awaiting edit and it was October 27th! That might give you some idea of the dreich weather we’ve been having. OK that’s not all that prevented me going up but a fair part of it and today, December 15th, the sun shone, kind of! 🙂 So I decided it was high time I went back up for a walk and to check the water level, last time I was there it wasn’t good. … More Accidental Encounter
this article has taken me soooooooooo long to put together! Maybe the weather? Busy with other things? (I doubt it) Just one of those funks we sometimes get into but glad to have got there finally. … More Weekly Digest
I’ve just come to realise that there is a set of birds out there that only appear in the garden as the weather begins to decline, maybe not decline, the temperature drops perhaps. I’ve spotted a (the) Mistle Thrush a couple of times now, a pair of Brambling dropped in on Sunday & Monday and … More They call me the Creeper
I am very lucky to have a great selection of regular garden visitors to the feeders and now and then, a less common visitor might drop by but I don’t think I have any favourites, apart from maybe colouration making them more pleasing to photograph and share. … More Cedric & Calliope Dine Out
It’s been getting progressively colder all week and a week of very mixed weather, we had storm somebody or other, blew a hoollie ALL night then the next day was post-storm windy day, certainly clearing leaves off the Autumnal trees. It’s also been a great week for sunrise and set, not every day but a good few and of course …. a Lemmon! … More Weekly Digest
I’m going to try to organise myself and get some of these photos up here and shared, rather than sitting in a folder ……. I just keep taking more, editing more 😦 … More Weekly Digest
A few weeks back a nearby neighbour told me she’d seen a white bird coming into her garden, she described it to me and I suggested it could be a leucistic Blackbird, maybe even a Chaffinch, we used to have a leucistic Blackbird in our local area that would drop into the garden now and … More A Bit of Stalking
I drove back onto the farm yard and noticed a few birds around one of the big puddles left by the recent rain so I stopped the car and reached for the “big boy”, my joke name for the camera with a Sigma 150-600mm lens fitted 🙂 … More The Puddle Party