easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in inspiration, nature on May 1st, 2012
Yay, my shiny new Conker shoes have arrived! They were delivered on Friday, while I was out at work. Paul very kindly went to pick them up from the sorting office for me while I was out at work on Saturday. He was somewhat startled to find that the postman knew me, and was not [...]
Peregrine I haven’t taken any bird photos for a while… but today was Paul’s birthday trip, which was a visit to Feathers and Fur, a local falconry centre. It’s a tiny place, inside a garden centre, and a friend had told us about a Groupon offer on their Hands On falconry sessions. Willow, barn owl [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]