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Photographing Swans is as difficult as photographing snow. They often appear bleached and featureless. Or bedraggled and dirty. Getting the exposure just …
Photographing Swans is as difficult as photographing snow. They often appear bleached and featureless. Or bedraggled and dirty. Getting the exposure just …
It’s Day 14 of turning the pages in this 1950s Ladybird book of British Birds. “…it does like to be fairly near …
Dunnocks are often unfairly overlooked. They are stunningly beautiful in close-up. You just need to get close: Here in Italy the beautiful …
Forty years ago I saw a Brambling for the first time and noted it down in my childhood nature notebooks: Fringilla montifringilla. …
The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis. This magnificent bird was made extinct by humans in the 1850s. Were all those feather pillows worth their death?
The weather forecast has been for sunshine today. I’ve been checking it all week. Sunny, it says. As the day gets closer …
It’s Day 13 of turning the pages in this Ladybird Book of British Birds. I’ve been enjoying the Allen Seaby illustrations but …
I love Blue Tits. I’m used to seeing them in Devon. Here they are in Italy: This one so is immaculately groomed …
I occasionally have to go to London on business. In a small side street in Marylebone called Welbeck Street is the Holiday …
The Great Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos major, is a wonderful bird. This is a female coming in search of food at the WWF …
These Grey Wagtails, Motacilla cinerea, are so beautiful. In Italy they are not known as Grey Wagtails, they are known as Ballerina …
This a blog post which just had to be written. I love Great Tits and I know I’m not alone. Here then …
What’s changed for the Goldfinch since this 1950s Ladybird book was published?
I suspect this Limpet has been experimenting with a new hairstyle. That green hair must be quite high maintenance, because the waves …
Incoming! Grey Herons such are lumbering giants with prehistoric overtones: This one’s landed in the water and is going for a paddle: …
Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day, or, as it’s more commonly known, #squirrelappreciationday. Here’s my appreciation of Britain’s Squirrels: In the 1800s, Red …
I’m turning the pages of this 1950s Ladybird book to see what’s changed in wildlife, childhood, technology and me. The numbers of Song Thrushes have halved from 1970 to 2015.
It’s a year since I took up bird photography properly and I can tell that I’m getting better. Partly it’s the practice …
What’s changed since this 1950s Ladybird Book of British Birds was published?
There’s been an influx of Hawfinches into the UK this autumn and winter. After checking the Devon Birds website I’ve been out …
Red Squirrels, like me, are addicted to fresh walnuts. Unlike me they have the teeth to get into them. Red Squirrels come prepared with a sharp set of nutcrackers already provided.
Marsh Tits are quite difficult to photograph. They are fast and pay only fleeting visits to exposed perches. There are far fewer …
We are driving along a dusty road in Italy with telegraph poles alongside it. Every few hundred metres is a Kestrel, or, …
Little Egrets are one of the most beautiful birds I’ve photographed. I remember the shock of seeing my first one from the …
The brown waters of the River Tiber in Rome never seem to be able to reflect the intense blue of the sky …
Along the River Tiber in Rome there are many bridges. Under some of them, on the east side of the old city, …
Walking along the Tiber in Rome there are two waterfront boulevards. On one side it is beautiful, clean, well-lit, marked with a …
A Heron on a bridge over the River Tiber stands as still as an Ancient Roman statue.
The Rose Ringed Parakeets in Rome are a noisy delight. Here’s one in a tree on the banks of the River Tiber: …
It’s Day 9 of turning the pages in this 1950s Ladybird book to see what’s changed in the past 60 years: “The …