Category: photography
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Heron
Mmm, if you looked at the top image and went, that’s not a heron, well done! I think the shot below is perhaps the best photograph I’ve taken in a long time. As I walked up from the reed beds that line the edge of the River Severn I spooked this heron, and it flew…
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The glory of the green
Just look at this image, of the little oak in my back garden. The new leaves, blessed with rain… I could look at this for hours, and may have done in the real. Time flies when you’re away with the trees. Of course, not every photograph is perfect…
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Sumer is i-cumin in
It’s struggling, but the summer is coming… I can’t remember when winter was last this long, and spring so half hearted, but you have to take what comes, eh. All those years of talking about impending climate chaos and when it comes it’s all so surprising… The bee in the top shot is hanging from…
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Pics for the day
Just remember, if you’re going to play around with the chicks, make sure mum isn’t close by… Greylag Goose chicks at WWT Slimbridge today, on a very wet morning. Of course it was raining; it was a Bank Holiday in Britain! But while we’re on the subject of chicks… the robin chicks whose parents recklessly…
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Colour on a Grey Day
Yes, ok, it’s spring and there’s March winds and April showers and currently all of them all the time… It’s that bit of the year where the overtopping frustrations of winter begin to overwhelm the urgency of new growth and sunlight! Being outdoors risks drenching rain and being indoors the claustrophobic enclosure of four walls……
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Frogal Lengths
I spotted this frog bravely if futily guarding a section of the main pond. There’s spawn now in the smaller pond, but if they decide to spread any in here it will only add a little xtra tastiness to the diet of the patrolling koi and other pond fish. I decided to take substantially the…
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Now is Imbolc here…
The eightfold year is a decent enough model in which to build a cycle of celebratory ritual, but it doesn’t have to require the strictest adherence to the calendar… For me, at least, there are little markers and pointers; indications that the time has come. For Imbolc and for spring in general, to me that…
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Postcards from Anglesey
On a trip up to North Wales to assist my mum during her cataract operation, we nipped over to RSPB South Stack on Anglesey, or Ynys Mon. Later, we also had a brief wander around RSPB Conwy. The weather was highly localised, and we could walk into and out of snow and sunshine almost at…
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Greylag and Bewicks over the Severn
I’m so very grateful to be living so close to the river Severn, with all the sights she offers. Brown and fearsomely tidal, she is home to so many creatures. Here are a couple of shots from a walk the other day. The ancestor of most domestic geese, the greylag is the largest and bulkiest…
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Water Rail
Water Rails are shy birds, and I was delighted to see one emerge from the reedbeds and cautiously dig around for breakfast… Not the first time of seeing for me, but this time it came right out and had a swim in the very flooded wetlands around Slimbridge WWT. It looks very diffferent in swim…
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