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Ratty's Search For Food-16
2021 - 365 Project

047-365v4 Ratty’s Search For Food

Love ’em or lothe ’em you have to take your hat off to a rats perseverance. We are slowly capturing and removing our rat issue from the back garden, mother rat, however is certainly not giving up the search for food away from the (humane) traps we have set out

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Great Tit (Parus major)
2021 - 365 Project

044-365v4 Great Tit (Parus major)

Today we are back in the garden (via the kitchen window). We still have a few regular visitors to cover and today is one of those – the Great Tit. We have a few of these who visit the feeding stations regularly. More on yesterday’s little puzzle picture to follow

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Peek a Boo
2021 - 365 Project

042-365v4 Peek a Boo

Limited opportunities for photography today, so I just have a bit of a grab shot of this A Dunnock (Prunella modularis) who was keeping a close eye on me as I moved around the kitchen. They love the twisted willow and spend quite a lot of time in there, but

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Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
2021 - 365 Project

040-365v4 Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)

A second appearance for this little fellow on the blog (you can see this Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba) here as well), it was a month ago so I hope you’ll forgive this repeat. S/he is a happy little soul always bouncing around the garden, even ratty doesn’t chase him/her, unlike

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A Sparrow in the Twisted Willow
Birds

039-365v4 Sparrow in the Hazel

As with much of the East of England today we have had a moderate snow fall. As we are in the South this has caused complete chaos. This, of course, makes no difference to me as I work from home, long gone are the “snow days” when it was perfectly

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Dragged Through a Hedge Backwards
2021 - 365 Project

035-365v4 – Dragged Through a Hedge Backwards

We saw this little Blue Tit for the first time in our garden yesterday. Debbie actually asked what sort of bird it was as it looked so odd and it was only when we zoomed into him that we could see s/he was definitely a Blue Tit. S/He came back

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Magpie on the garden wall
2021 - 365 Project

033-365v4 Magpie Time

Tuesday’s are often a busy day what with work and then Camera Club (currently via Zoom at the moment) in the evening so I thought I would get today’s post out a bit earlier than my normal last minute at 11.00pm job that I normally do 😉 It’s been a

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The Eurasian Collared Dove
2021 - 365 Project

028-365v4 The Eurasian Collared Dove

If you have been following this blog for any length of time you will know that I usually start these with something along the lines of “This isn’t the picture I intended to produce today!” Today is no exception, so you get another garden shot…I’m beginning to get quite a

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Looking For Nuts
2021 - 365 Project

026-365v4 Oops…Nearly Forgot

It happens sometimes, I get distracted by a busy day and completely forget about the 365. Fortunately I had grabbed   4 pictures of one of the squirells that regulary visits us…I wasn’t going to use this as I had a speciifc photo in mind, but I’ve now run out of

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Staring at the Starlings waiting for the Snow
2021 - 365 Project

024-365v4 Staring at the Starlings waiting for the Snow

Today was supposed to be a snow day. It was due to start at 11am (it did) and continue until the evening (it did). What is didn’t do, in Great Dunmow at least, is settle to any degree, which rather buggered my photo plans for the day. Not only that,

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.