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After some pretty heavy writing earlier, I decided to have a flick through some recent photographs and re-discovered some that I took back in the Summer on the one really hot day we had! We took our little niece out for the day and visited Finckley Down Farm near Andover. I couldn’t resist taking photos [...]

Its funny how one very small post I made on this blog earlier this year has sparked off quite a few comments about Red Kite sightings in Hampshire. Thing is this is quite significant and as a member of the RSPB, it is very exciting to see that these splendid birds are living what seems [...]

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I am a frequent visitor to Dorney Wetlands in Buckinghamshire and in the past few days have discovered Skylarks there. We went along yesterday on a bitingly cold Saturday morning wrapped [...]

The clocks went forward today and enjoying the beautiful weather we have had today. I decided to grab my macro lens and take a look around our garden for some new images. Things are gradually springing to life out there and the hyacinths seemed to be a good choice, as they weren’t in direct and [...]

If you are one of the observant sorts you will no doubt spot that this isn’t a recent shot and you are indeed right, it was taken 10 months ago. I am in the mood for Spring and have spotted that the Black Headed gulls I’ve seen in recent weeks are starting to develop their [...]

One of my regular haunts currently is Dorney Wetlands, as right now its a hotbed of wildlife activity, if you were to visit it today you will see:

Lapwing
Golden Plover
Kestrel (if you hang around long enough)
Cormorant
Gadwall
Teal
Tufted Duck
and more…

You can see hundreds of Golden Plover at the moment and a huge number of Lapwing. I have seen [...]

Autumn is now starting to really kick in, today we saw the first heavy frost of the season and I decided to capture some of it in Windsor Great Park where there was the added delight of a low lying mist.
The close-ups of tree bark were (believe it or not) taken from one single tree. [...]

We were sat in a Pub garden that overlooked Newquay Harbour. Tina pointed at something that she thought was a seal. I told her it was probably a rock or a large clump of seaweed. I honestly thought thats what it was at first until the object vanished and appeared over on the other side [...]

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Its definitely Autumn as we went chestnut picking yesterday and our pickings made some fine subjects for my kitchen based studio. The best place being right under the window [...]