Wurzel, Neil Thanks for the comments and glad you enjoyed the ride, I really enjoyed reading back over my trip reports looking for sightings and shots worth relating It is looking like there will be no post for February as I have only been seeing more of the same. I have managed to get a few decent ...

January 2014 This is the last of my catch-up reports and we go into the New Year. Back to business I thought, but not so as on the 6th my first great-grandson arrived. So I became a very busy taxi driver ferrying people to hospital for visits, then taking grand-daughter and son home. Then lots more ...

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Thanks for that I have re-worded the text so it is clearer

Essex, Wurzel Thanks for the comments. I have only started seeing Partridge locally for the past few years, and now the fields around here hold some at times but I generally see no more than 6 of each whilst out. Getting them is a hit and miss affair with so many fields behind walls that cannot be s...

Mike Harewood sits to the north of Leeds on the hills overlooking the Wharfe valley and out into the Vale of York. Red Kites were first released here in 1999 and they have since spread out into the southern Dales and the Yorkshire lowlands. There are about 300 birds now in Yorkshire. Over the past f...

Cheers Nick October 2013 I still managed to get out occasionally during the last three months of 2013, and take some shots around the garden, but it would be January before things started to turn around. During the middle of October I also was looking after a young lady from France visiting the comp...

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Thank you for the kind comments. I have seen Stoat / Weasel in the area a few times but normally it is a fleeting glimpse usually near a wall into which it vanishes seemingly never to re-appear. It really was pure luck with this one

Phil

Lovely shots Wurzel I envy all of you with Fritillaries nearby, I think the nearest to me will be up on the North York Moors in Yorkshire; however, the Morecambe area might be closer as the crow flies. The shots you and others post certainly make me feel the travel would be worthwhile to see them Phil

September Part 3 Sitting here on a cold, grey and damp February day the glorious summer of 2013 seems a distant memory, but just going back over the pictures and re-living the memories makes me so glad I got into wildlife in the first place. We are approaching the end of September in my re-cap and t...

These were suprisingly the first for me photo wise silly as that sounds. September Part 2 This post mainly covers a trip to Fairburn Ings RSPB Reserve near Castleford and the days around that period. I normally visit the reserve twice a year; once in the winter months for the wildfowl and again usua...

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We have a lot less species than you up here but this winter we have also had a lot less rain it appears. A good bit has fallen but I have not seen any unexpected flooding at all this winter, just lots of bad weather, although the past few days have not been too bad

Phil

Lovely shots - I wish we had a closeish wetland reserve, most years have to depend on winter field floods down in the valley if they occur

Phil

Wurzel - the offer is appreciated And so into September, the weather still excellent and I was becoming more active it proved to be a good month. Some visits to more distant spots and good times locally and in the garden The first few days of the month were spent in Oxford, I took the wife down for ...

Thanks Wurzel. I notice Larkhill pop up in your posts, I remember spending a few good weeks there over the years when i was in the Royal Artillery. Have not been down that way though since the late 80s. i have seen Red Grouse within a few miles of the house, and the spot I go to is only about 3 - 4 ...

I agree Wurzel, some excellent shots there. What camersa set-up do you use?

Nick Thanks, it is good to be back again. Now looking forward to the next few Christmases it has been a good few years since we had the magic of infants around at Xmas-time. Love seeing the sheer joy and awe on their faces at this time; and with it being a boy new territory for us as we have to date...

Hello again to all, it seems ages since my last post back in August. A lot has happened since then and now but I feel things are back on track, especialy considering the arrival of our first great-grandson 3 weeks ago. An utter joy as we can hand him back at the end of the day, all the good bits but...

Some recent photos that I have taken, most in the garden area but the Comma and Holly Blue were from a a local walk I did. The garden has seen a multitude of whites passing through with over 100 sightings a day in the time I was out, mainly Large White but decent numbers of Green-veined and Small as...

Another catch up Like most of the country we have had some spectacular weather, but apart from some specific sites this has not led to a major increase in butterflies being seen around generally. The morning/evening trip on the train has produced very few sightings along the railway corridor. On the...

Pauline Glad you like them, I love most of your butterfly shots as I have indicated on earlier posts, most of subjects I have no chances of seeing locally; making them twice as welcomed I work with a bridge camera, up to a few weeks ago I used a Fuji S5600 which has served me well since I bought it ...