Spent a couple of hours with Mike at his feeding station today. Lots of activity although limited species due to the mild weather. The great tits and blue tits performed very well but I was pleased with the three great spotted woodpeckers and the nuthatches that kept appearing on stage. At one point, the woodpeckers...
Decided to down tools on the commercial photography edits today and head to one of my favourite little spots where red grouse congregate at the side of the road. The weather was glorious as I left home but by the time I got to my destination on the hills an hour later, the wether had closed...
Got a call last night to say there was a great northern diver (common loon for the USA visitors) on Cawood’s Pool at Pugneys Country Park and it had still been there at dusk. So, I set off early this morning as the sun was rising and met up with this battle cruiser of a...
Wakefield Camera Club, of which I am a member, are running a new competition to commemorate the passing of life member Maurice Biglin who spent many a happy hour photographing wild flowers. The competition is a print competition and members can enter up to three prints depicting British wild flowers. So, I thought I have...
Over the last 10yrs or so, common buzzard has become, well, common! This species was such a rare bird in West Yorkshire that it would have been highly twitchable in the old days but the common buzzard is an avian success story and has spread across much of the country, let alone our county. The...
