Walking home yesterday evening, this female stag beetle crossed my path. When I stopped to take a photo, she stuck her tongue out at me. How rude!
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Way back in February, on our way home from Devon, we stopped off at Bristol Zoo. I took a few photos, as usual, but I wasn’t feeling very well that day so I wanted to try and concentrate on seeing as much as possible and having a good time. I love anywhere that you can [...]
Canada Goose Drama
Posted in nature on Jun 21st, 2010
(Picture by Paul, taken in May 2008) This weekend my parents came to visit. On Friday afternoon we all went down to the lake where we took part in a Canada Goose Drama. A swan came and attacked all six of the goslings, splitting them up from their parents and chasing them away. As soon [...]
Leaves in the snow.
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Dec 18th, 2009
I went for a walk in the snow this morning. I took a grand total of 99 pictures, then came back and edited them down to just 9. I went out rather early, so although there was a lot of light reflecting from the snow, it wasn’t really daylight yet. As a result a lot [...]
Square Format
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Nov 18th, 2009
This is the big fat frog that hopped out from underneath the broken fence as we were pulling it down. He didn’t seem too keen to get out of our way – Paul had to rather unceremoniously pick him up and plop him down in next door’s plant pot! This morning, whilst wandering around on [...]
I’m just dropping in for a flying visit to upload the photos from the first part of our honeymoon – you can see them all here. Yesterday we had a Falconry session in the morning, and an Encounter With Owls in the afternoon. This enormous chap was featured in both. His name’s Woolly, and he’s [...]
Look who I met today. Isn’t he adorable? This little grey squirrel spent all morning running about in the rain, digging holes in my back garden and burying his stash of winter goodies. When he’d finished, he decided that it would be a good idea to sit on my fence and bark/honk/screech at me for [...]
No, not tiny little woollies to keep them warm. Instead, Seasalt in Cornwall are holding their annual “Go Knit!” charity drive. This year they’re collecting donations of hand knitted scarves, and all proceeds from their sale will go to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Bees and knitting are two of my passions, so obviously I’ve sent [...]
To make the most of the fact that I happened to be off sick on the one day in the last fortnight when it wasn’t chucking it down with rain the entire time, I went for a very short walk with the camera – just down to the edge of the lake and back. Paul’s [...]
Here’s another bird picture, by way of an apology for my lack of posting. I seem to have been super busy lately, and I’ll have loads of new plans to tell you about very soon. In the meantime, my baby blackbird is growing up! Here he is, fresh from the bird bath.