Wet August
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »It is a good job there hasn't been much to film this month because the weather has been awful. Islay has had eight inches of rain during August so I am glad I haven't been up there either! In between ...
Swallows On The Move
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »Once again the Swallows at the Golf Club have had a successful season with more than fifty young fledged from five/six pairs. This year with only one room available for them to nest in two pairs have bred ...
Back To Earth
Monday, August 17th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »After two weeks in the Arctic Ice it is difficult to return to the local scene against the backdrop of thundering traffic on the M62. A visit to Pennington Flash produced five Green Sandpipers, good to see but always too far ...
Spitsbergen Re-Visited
Monday, August 10th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »I couldn't resist a further two photos from Spitsbergen. One the female Polar Bear enjoys a bit of back scratching. The other is of one of Spitsbergen's most stunning flowers, the Boreal Jacobs Ladder.
Polar Bear Feast
Saturday, August 8th, 2009 Posted in General | No Comments »After four visits to Spitsbergen and no decent photographs of Polar Bears it all came good last week with seven bears being seen in one day and a total of twenty six for the ten day voyage. I am going to ...