I did a flash workshop yesterday with Feargal Quinn, a doctor from Dublin over here working for a few days. The weather as predicted overcast all day with a few showers. Feargal wanted to practice shooting with flash as it […]
With the news of a Eastern Olivaceous warbler at Farlington marshes reported for a few days I could’nt resist a look. I used to do a bit of twitching years ago but since I got my small bit of woodland […]
On Thursday i joined on of my quests to try and capture some flight shots, I set up and area for the birds to fly into at a set distance and set my camera up with very fast shutter times […]
I did a 4-hour session with the birds to capture some on the berries as the hedgerows are now starting to show. I clipped of some Hawthorne and Blackthorne and set them up as perches to which the bird took […]
Reports of a Squacco heron coming from the internet persuaded me to have a look, its been around for weeks apparently seen by early morning dog walkers, one described it as a Barn owl coloured heron. Well usually when I […]
A few hours in the hides to photograph a selection of birds, first time I managed a female Blackcap which came in to drink. Plenty of woodpeckers but still no young Jay’s, loads of young birds around including several young […]
With no one in today I decided to have a few hours in the hides, weather hot and full sun all day, not ideal but you have to make the most of it. I started down the pond hide, my […]
I decided to make my drinking pools larger to get better reflection shots so I started on the one I call the Siskin hide. This is it stripped down and you can see the pond liner I used to build […]
The forecast today was sunshine and showers for the wood, unfortunately no one told the forecast as it rained all the time I was there. Fortunatleyall my hides are 100% waterproof so it was quite nice watching the birds going […]
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