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After having a bad night, I slumped grumpily at my desk all morning, processing photo files while listening to political podcasts; but at lunch time I pulled myself together and went off to Upton Warren in search of birds. On … Continued

I’m calling this image Making the Best of a Frustrating Day. I drove to Shropshire this morning to look for Golden-ringed Dragonflies in Carding Mill Valley, but the only ones I think I saw were a distant shimmer of spotlit … Continued

I’ve been gadding about recently – too many trips out, too many photos taken, and not enough sorted, culled and processed; so I gave myself a relatively lazy day today and tried to catch up a little. As well as … Continued

I spent this afternoon at Croome, just because it felt like too long since I was last there. I hadn’t been planning to blip another Common Darter so soon after the one I posted on Sunday, but out of all … Continued

My hobby is chasing around after wildlife and trying to get better at photographing it. Some days are more successful than others, and today counts as a good one because I managed to capture this hobby, hunting dragonflies over Napton … Continued

The weather this morning was horrible, which gave me several hours with nothing better to do than work on photos. The good news is that I’ve now culled 90% of the photos I took yesterday of the Grey Phalarope. The … Continued

When birders use the word “confiding”, it conveys the charming, though inaccurate, sense that a bird is happy to be in the company of people; what it really means is that the bird is so busy about its own concerns … Continued

While we were taking down the camera club photo exhibition at the Playhouse in Stratford on Monday, one of the managers noticed this photo I’d taken of a short-eared owl, and asked if they could borrow it to display as … Continued

After a morning at my desk, glancing out of the window occasionally to see if it was still raining, and discovering that it was, I finally made it out into the garden with the camera at lunch time. I’d taken … Continued

A successful and well-respected photographer of my acquaintance is of the opinion (frequently and firmly expressed) that it’s impossible to take an interesting photograph of a swan. Despite – or possibly probably because of – this, I keep trying to … Continued