I had a break this morning to photograph a newly fledged Robin family. You can see that out of the 4 different birds each plumage is at a slightly different stage, this is the 3rd family group now born in […]
I had a break this morning to photograph a newly fledged Robin family. You can see that out of the 4 different birds each plumage is at a slightly different stage, this is the 3rd family group now born in […]
I spent a pleasant few hours photographing the birds with wild flowers today from the main hide. Birds are fewer but starting to see this years young with Siskin which have bred here and the first of the woodpeckers being […]
On Thursday I had an attempt at identifying the growing number of wild flowers in the wood, I was advised earlier in the year by a neighbour to wait and see what was growing before I introduced anything, wise words. […]
After watering the new trees and plants ( 2 hours) I spent the morning trying to get some bird photos with bluebells in the background, I pre baited with with some seed and waited. I managed a few shots but […]
After finished building the last hide (for now anyway) I took a break to photograph some birds on the newly emerging wild cherry trees around the wood. First I found a couple of suitable cherry perches and got to work. […]
With the storm we had a few weeks ago taking down 5 of my larch trees I decided to make a new hide with the wood. This will be my final hide as I now feel I have light in […]
Far a long time I’ve had Siskin, one of our smaller winter visiting finches in the treetops all around the hides but not one would come to the feeders, then to my relief one by one they started to take […]
Had a brake today from digging, planting, nest box building and everything else to take a few photos of the woodland birds. Siskin have just recently started to come in to the feeders as well as the odd Redpoll and […]
On Monday I had 2 members of The Natural World Photography Society, Joe Startup and Phil Stillman book my hides, they where happy to spend their time photographing the woodpeckers and tits etc… from the main hide, they really enjoyed […]
Having woke to about half inch of snow I quickly grabbed my photography gear, not easy as it was scattered around the house and not having done much recently had to remember where I had put things. I arrived at […]