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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,
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
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
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
We have a lot of birds visit our garden these days and I periodically photograph them, but very rarely do I photograph the pigeons that come along, so I did that today. The Gas man came round to fix the boiler and was very dismissive of the “Flying Rats” as
Stepping back to April 2019 we visited Lackford Lakes in Suffolk (not far from Bury St Edmonds). Run by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust they have a number of bird hides with one particularly good for sightings of Kingfishers…because of this you can never get in 😉 Who needs Kingfishers anyway,
We had our weekend walk around Rowney Woods near Saffrom Walden and saw a couple of Buzzrads flying in the distance. Unusually, 1 of them left his usual area and gave us a fly past as he headed off to pastures new.
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