Winter’s Best
Sunday, March 25th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »This Winter has not been the best for numbers of birds so I couldn't resist the temptation to include two of my favourite photos I took of a Hawfinch. I waited a lifetime to capture on film this elusive bird ...
Ptarmigan Surprise
Saturday, March 17th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »A five day non birding visit to Speyside somehow produced the Ptarmigan photo. We had decided to walk up to the restaurant at the top of Cairngorm mountain taking our two Golden Retrievers with us. Unfortunately half way up the ...
Redpolls Galore
Sunday, March 11th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »During the week I paid a return visit to a friend's garden near Huddersfield in an attempt to film the Redpolls that he was feeding. Four niger seed feeders were attracting up to fifty Redpolls including the superb male shown ...
Breeding Season Commences
Sunday, March 4th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »In fifty four years of recording breeding seasons this year has produced, on 1st March, the second earliest Long Tailed Tit's nest. (the record is 24th February 1999). On 2nd March in the Rossendale valley another pair of Long ...
Round In Circles
Sunday, February 26th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »Another week on Islay and only four hours of sunshine. The Glaucous Gull was taken through the video camera where I do not require sunlight - perhaps as well! One of the attractions of Islay, apart from the qeese, are the ...
White – Winged Gulls Galore
Sunday, February 19th, 2012 Posted in General | No Comments »This week's photo is of a hunting Kite filmed in Dumfries and Galloway, where I toured last week. We have been on Islay enjoying an abundance of Iceland and Glaucous Gulls. As usual Islay is good for Raptors and we ...