I've recently been visiting a new site close to where I live. It has a small stream running between woodland on one side and a meadow on the other. The brook has kingfishers and dippers and in the woods there is a pond which attracts herons and ducks. Ive spent a lot of time sat down by the stream photographing the dippers and grey wagtails and hoping a kingfisher might visit the perches I've put out. Also every time I've been I've seen roe deer in the meadow or on the hill a

Recently Yorkshire has become a bit of a hotspot for ospreys as they head south for the winter. One had been at Sprotborough Flash near Doncaster for 4 or 5 weeks so we decided to head on down and see if it was still about. It is named after its main feature, the flash, a long, water-filled depression parallel to the river Don. There's a path between the river and the flash and along there are 3 hides with seating and views over the water, and as we passed a couple with camer