Here we are then, the final part of a look back at my photographic journey through 2017. This time we’re off on a trip to southern England before topping out the year with a snowy start to the winter. Autumn Begins in the Garden I added some new plants to the garden last year, to…
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Often found roaming the Midlands pointing a camera at stuff.
More New Places. A Look Back At 2017, Part 2
Picking this up again in early July. With 30 Days Wild completed and another week off work, it seemed like a good time to head out and tick some of the places off my ever growing list of where I want to visit. New Places RSPB The Lodge The first place this week was RSPB…
Where Did The Time Go? A Look Back At 2017, Part 1
It’s been quite a while since I last wrote anything on here, almost a year since my last post. I did start writing about 30 Days Wild at the beginning of July last year, but then things got on top of me and I never finished it. Then it was August, then October, and Christmas, and…
Spring Begins
As March saw out the winter and brought in the spring, life has surged back into the garden. The weather is warming, the plants are flowering and the minibeasts are out and about again. The crocuses were out in force at the start of the month, with lovely displays of deep purple and white, closely followed by…
Winter Washes
I wrote this a while ago, but for some reason I forgot to post it… So a bit late here’s a post about a trip I made to the Ouse Washes back in the winter. With winter comes rain, and with rain comes the flooding of the washes. So for my first trip of 2017 I decided to…
Unexpected Garden Visitor
Last weekend I got quite a surprise when I looked out of the window into the back garden. A green woodpecker digging ants out of the garden lawn. The bird stayed in the garden for quite a long time so I also recorded a few videos of the digging and feeding. Here’s the best one. I’ve…
#WildOctober – Part 2
After the daily outings of week one for the remainder of October I was back at work, so things became a bit harder for doing #WildOctober. It’s not so much the getting outside that’s hard – there is a small park near work and I try to go for a walk around it every lunchtime. The struggle…
#WildOctober – Part 1
Back at the end of September, Louise over at Louise’s 30 Days Wild suggested doing something like 30 Days Wild but for October. Get outdoors and enjoy nature every day, and take some photos to share along the way. For more details have a read of Wild October on Louise’s blog. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to manage it…
Summer in the Garden
As the days become shorter and colder, the leaves start to change and autumn gets underway, lets take a look back at life in the garden from the last few months.
The Lowest Place in the UK
I’d been meaning to take a trip to the Great Fen for a while, so one day in July off I went. There are a number of parts to the Great Fen, but the two main areas are Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen. Holme Fen has been on TV a few times, showcasing the landscape restoration and the…
A Day in The Washes
Summer isn’t really the best time to visit the washes if you’re looking for birds, it’s the time of year when they’re at the driest, the least birds are around and the ones that are there are generally hiding in the tall vegetation. However, it’s a good time of year for insects and the RSPB Ouse Washes reserve is somewhere I’ve been meaning to go for a while, so in July I decided to head off there for a day.
Short Wood and Southwick Wood
Very late with this one! I mentioned in my 30 Days Wild post that for the final weekend of June I decided to go to somewhere I hadn’t been before. So on that weekend I headed off to a Wildlife Trusts nature reserve near Oundle that comprises two woodlands called Short Wood and Southwick Wood, with a meadow and…
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