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Stuck in with work all day again, I was able to get some nice shots of some of our visitors to the garden today including 2 squirells, ratty and a blue tit. We had plenty of other visitors but these are the ones that were prepared to have their photographs
Another catch up post, this time from May 2019 when I took a walk around the North part of Great Dunmow via the church towards Little Easton, back along Bigods Lane and then on to Doctors Pond. As always we had plenty of wildlife on the pond and generally around
This lovely Blue Tit was busy moving back and forth to one of our feeding areas and he settled in this Maple tree to finish his seed and then sort out his hair. I love the colour pallet on this shot, it’s not the usual colour pallet that we get
We have a lovely “flock” of Goldfinches, 6 of them, who visit our feeder regularly. This chap was very keen to say hello this morning, they ave a lovely song so you can usually hear them before they arrive. We have the promise of some snow tomorrow, first thing in
We’ve had a bit of a rat issue in the garden over the last year. We have a completely walled garden and we have lived here for over 20 years, but only recently have rats been visiting, we think because the neighbour has logs piled up against the wall they
Having just enjoyed some grapes following my luncheon (very middle class don’t ya know) Debbie, my wife, smiled and asked if i would like to see the bonus that came with the grapes? Sure, I said, what was it? I think I’d have prefered not to have known 😉 It
Another catch up post from April 2019. This one was from my first visit to the RSPB reserve at Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire. A lovely place to spend a few hours with some decent hides and lovely chalk streams with the clearest water. As I recall, it was absolutely perishing, despite
Still stuck photographing the garden, so today we have our regular winter visitor the Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba). He spends the rest of the year catching flies over Doctors Pond, but during winter, he finds lots to eat in our garden. Another one that doesn’t visit the feeders, he gets
I’ve been playing with a new film camera today, a Zeiss Icon Nettar, a folding camera made in the 1950’s that takes 120 film and produces 12 x 6×6 (square) negatives. We had pretty decent weather – freezing cold, but nice and bright until about half an hour before sunset
It’s cold, the days are short, I’m working from howm and we are in lockdown…so yeah, taking shots of the birds through the kitchen window works well at the moment. I did have a 3 mile walk first thing , but I was home before sunrise and it was heavily
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