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Duck Patrol at Doctors Pond
2021 - 365 Project

066-365v4 Duck Patrol at Dunmow Pond

The ducks are pairing up on Doctors Pond for the mating season. This is the only time they come visiting in our garden as they look for somewhere to lay their eggs. We always get losts of visitors, but they never stay…probably just as well as we still haven’t rid

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Fieldfare on Bigods Lane
2021 - 365 Project

064-365v4 Redwings & Fieldfare on Bigods Lane

We took our usual walk around our local area earlier today and saw the Fieldfare had arrived. They always turn up at this time of year on the fields around Bigods Lane in Great Dunmow. They are part of the thrush family and winter in the UK before heading north

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Leaping Squirrel
2021 - 365 Project

062-365v4 A Bumper Day of Photographs!

After struggling for an image yesterday, I’ve got them coming out of my ears today…this is what often happens when doing a 365 project. The featured image today is one of our regular squirrel’s who visits daily. This is the bigger of the two and he has discovered that if

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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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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.