Author Archives: John

Green-veined White

Another garden safari. This time I was hunting butterflies and I have to say I can’t remember a spring when there were so many butterflies on the wing! This hot weather is certainly benefiting the insects as well as the spring migrant birds. Long may it continue. In the garden this morning was speckled wood,...

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Solitary wasp

Yet another fine April morning so a quick stroll round the garden to see what insects were basking in the warm spring sunshine and it wasn’t long before I came across a new species for the garden. This solitary wasp was sunning itself on a hawthorn leaf and looking quite colourful with his yellow abdomen...

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A carpet of lemon yellow.

Good Friday and its been blisteringly warm again, so I decided to nip to Brockodale this evening to see if the early purple orchids were out yet. Here and there amongst the short cropped grass was a splash of purple just breaking through into the evening sunlight but the show stopper was the absolute carpet...

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Avocets and Godwits in the Northwest

The warm sunny April sunshine continued today as Ian and I arrived at Marshide to photograph avocets and black-tailed godwits. Althought the light was hazy, it was still too bright to shoot anything before mid-afternoon, so we headed off to nearby Martin Mere, a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve to try for some images of...

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Bluebells – a truely British spectacle

April in a British bluebell woodland is just a treat! The woodland floor is carpted with a sea of intense deep blue and the heady scent of thousands upon thousands of bluebells wafts by on the warm spring breeze mixed with a chorus of chaffinch and the newly arrived chiffchaff belting out his incesant song...

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