

Not Quite A Swan Lake!
For the last couple of years I've visited our local boating lake to watch the cygnets arrive and grow into beautiful swans. However this...


Inner-City Dippers
I know there are dippers on the river near where I live but generally they tend to be on clear fast flowing rivers in the woods or on the...


Mongoose or Mongeese?
As the Beast from the East (or Hysteria from Siberia) has us wrapped in an icy chill I decided to look back at some photo's from Barbados...


Re-Joining the Tufty Club
Until fairly recently the only Red squirrel I’d ever seen was Tufty the road safety squirrel who helped teach me to the cross the road. I...


Ravenscar Seals
For a birthday treat to myself I decided to go and see some more December babies at the grey seal colony at Ravenscar on the East...


Even More Reason to Feed the Birds
The recent snowfall across the country brought the usual road chaos and school closures and some great photo opportunities if you can...


Food Caching
Jays and nuthatches are two birds which will take food and store it away for a “rainy day”. This is known as caching and is a way for the...


You Gotta Love A Ginger
Beautiful moment this afternoon when I almost bumped into this stunning fox. I had wandered off down a new path and had just got to the...


More Drama than the BBC
An early morning start to hopefully watch the woodpeckers fledge ended up being an emotional roller coaster! As I arrived I noticed one...


Meet The Neighbours
As you know I’ve been watching the local woodpeckers recently but within yards of their nest are three others species. All three have...

























