Birding with a camera

  For whatever reason - poor research and homework or bad luck meant that today didn't go to plan. My hoped for Short-eared Owls and Bar...

Having stumbled on a group of Redwings feeding on berries the previous day, I returned this morning with the light bright and crisp. There t...

Boxing Day was cloudy, but it was high white cloud and was therefore quite bright. I had a Kestrel and a Lesser Black-backed Gull within 200...

  Christmas Day was cold, although the promised frost never appeared. None the less, I sprinkled some extra bird food on the path.  Two Robi...

The first sunny day - well not predominantly dull - on a weekend, looked like a good chance to get out to Derbyshire before the Christmas br...

  The shorter days of autumn after the clocks went back were characterized by dull and often damp weekends, with most of the sunshine confin...

  Following my short break in Shetland, I spent a couple of nights at home, checking on my Mum and was off again, this time to the Isles of ...