A couple of weeks ago we went to Paradise Wildlife Park. My photos are here. Thanks to a special offer pointed out to us by a friend, we had tickets for a “Monkey Tour”, which turned out to be absolutely brilliant. We got to meet ruffed lemurs, who were very laid back, and like to be tickled [...]
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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!
This glamorous fellow is a Nicobar Pigeon. We met him at Bristol Zoo, in the Bird Forest. It’s a little section that you can walk through with lots of birds flying (or in fact mostly walking) around freely. We also met a Roul Roul Partridge, who has an excellent punk hairdo and does a funny [...]
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 [...]
Excuse me, are you sure you haven’t got any food…?
This little cutie was begging for another piece of the muesli bar that I was eating.
Today we went to the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre, for a wildlife photography course. I learnt far more on this course than I did at the Twilight Photography one. I think the course and the teacher were just better suited to the way I like to learn. I’m really pleased with today’s pictures (which are [...]
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 [...]
Today we took a trip out to the Wolf Conservation Trust at Beenham for their open day. They’re not usually open to the general public, so the place was very busy. We took our cameras, and so did almost everybody else, but we were saddened to notice that the bigger the lens, the ruder the [...]
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 [...]