Author Archives: John

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...

Add a comment...

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

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...

Add a comment...

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Butterbur in the Dales

Ok, so I was another year older today and to comiserate celebrate I headed off to the Dales with the family for lunch at The Angel pub, Hetton. Before we hit the food, we had a short walk around Janet’s Foss near Malham and it was nice to see so many wild flowers blooming in...

Add a comment...

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *

Redpolls in York

My friend Ian Newton invited me over to a small woodland near York where he was helping run a feeding station to attract redpolls as part of a study being conducted by a local birder. The niger seed feeders were attracting stacks of coal tits, blue tits and marsh tits, a species we don’t get...

Add a comment...

Your email is never published or shared. Required fields are marked *