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GLOSSY IBIS Plegadis falcinellus
The Glossy Ibis was a good distance away, and it is quite a small bird. I was surprised when I first spotted it. This image is from September 2025, the Ibis’s second visit to the reserve.
Glossy Ibis are becoming more common in the Uk but still regarded as scarce.
Little Ringed Plover at RSPB Frampton Marsh.
Hare at RSPB Frampton Marsh
Young Sedge Warbler at RSPB Frampton Marsh
Spoonbill in flight at RSPB Frampton Marsh
Black Tailed Godwit at RSPB Frampton Marsh
Sedge Warbler at RSPB Frampton Marsh 13/5/25
Garden Warbler at Summer Leys LNR 30/4/2025 Singing away
Common Bulbul in Marrakesh Morroco. February 2025
CHIFFCHAFF
Not the first this year (well, some winter in the UK) but they are calling well a good sign that spring is here. Taken at Summer Leys LNR April 2025
House Bunting in the Medina, Marrakesh, Morroco. February 2025
Meadow Pipit – RSPB Frampton March. March 2025
Garden Warbler at Summer Leys LNR
Linnet Summer Leys Nature Reserve Feb 2024
Siskin Summer Leys Nature reserve March 2024
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The Birds and the Bees
Yesterday I visited Summer Leys Nature Reserve thinking huge space no problem, there were lots of people and in some parts of the walk you cannot avoid them. Anyway some great photography and good bird spotting. Especially the Common Snipe, Oystercatchers, Redshank, Finches, Tits and Chiffchafs. That evening the BCN WT closed the car park for the time being.
Day 1 – Monday March 16th 2020
"UK PM Johnson: Everyone should now avoid social contact with others" Is the day that I decided to keep myself away from potential sources of the Corvid-19 Virus. Whether I shall be successful will been obvious later in the year. So no cafes and pubs in the main....
The Week before Storm Ciara
A Waxing Gibbious Moon 6th February 2020A bitty week with jus a few small trips this week visiting Ravensthorpe Reservoir, Stortons Gravel Pits area and Summer Leys nature reserve. Weather was mixed but mostly sunny but cold winds. One or two nice sunsets and misty...
Moons, Rain and Birds
A Robin at Stortons Gravel Pits January 2020 is almost over, it has been wet almost the whole month and has left lakes and rivers bursting and dangerously full. Trips out have been hampered by the poor light and water logged walkways. Ravensthorpe for example is...
Ravensthorpe, Mud & Damage
Two images stitched togetherI visit Ravensthorpe on many occasions. It is a pleasant short walk which walking non stop would take about 30 minutes. Stopping and starting it turns into an hour or more. Usually with a wide selection of bird life to observe including...
RSPB Frampton Marsh
RSPB Frampton Marsh - Lincolnshire - 3rd September 2019 https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/frampton-marsh/ I think I visited Frampton Marsh on a 'quiet' day. There were birds about but not in any large numbers apart from flocks of...
Summer Leys Nature Reserve
Summer Leys Nature Reserve is part of the The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire. It is a place I now visit very regularly for two reasons, a very nice walk and good opportunities to see and photograph wildlife. It is situated on Hardwater Road near Wollaston.
RSPB Minsmere
I started by taking the woodland walk to find the Bittern Hide and eventually the Island Mere Hide. Just into the woods and there in front of me a Tree Creeper. I still have not got a good image of a Tree Creeper and failed on this day as well. Good to observe it though. Once in the Bittern Hide, no sign of one (another day then). I did see a Marsh Harrier in the distance.
Accelerating Change
I am a ‘baby boomer’, born in 1952. I and other baby boomers have lived through a period of accelerating and dramatic change both culturally socially and technologically.
A Hot day in London
The urge to go to London took me there on 23rd July 2019, A very hot day, temperatures in the low 30’s. So armed with lots of water and sun cream I caught the 10.26 train to Euston.
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