photographs: people, places & things
Goldfinch in the garden – a pretty and colourful bird The goldfinch is certainly a pretty and colourful bird, we now have a few that are regular visitors to our garden and two or three of them seem to visit several times a day on most days of the week. A quick search on this […]
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Birds in frantic feeding frenzy on the feeders During the week we moved some of our bird feeders and added a ‘home made’ log bird feeder. The log bird feeder was pretty much a straight copy from an idea that my wife had found somewhere online. It’s simply a reasonably sturdy log that hasn’t dried […]
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Is there anyone who doesn’t like a cute yellow duckling? I doubt I will see many more yellow ducklings like this during the rest of the year, and I simply couldn’t resist a few pictures earlier this week as we walked along a local stretch of the Peak Forest canal. Instagram You can check out […]
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The birds and the bees … I was away last week on one of the bikes (you can read about that trip here), and it was only yesterday that I took some of my more ‘regular’ pictures in the garden. It’s only this year that we have been able to attract goldfinches into the garden. […]
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A year with a camera – from snapper to accomplished photographer What a difference a day makes … and what a difference a year or so makes! Up until around May last year, when it came to taking photographs my wife could probably be fairly described as being ‘quite handy’ with a point and shoot […]
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Garden birds – photographed through the window It’s not ideal but sometimes you have to just make the best of what you have got. Just recently that has meant grabbing some shots of birds (particularly Goldfinches) from behind glass, the glass in this case being our kitchen window and a window that looks out onto […]
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Walking the Tame Valley and Peak Forest canal – early summer picture post The series of images in the picture gallery below are a selection that were taken on a couple of walks between the last week in May and the third week in June. The pictures were taken alongside the river Tame in the […]
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New life – plenty of new life on the canal If you asked me what month or what time of year was my favourite for wandering along the towpath and checking out what’s going on – I really would struggle to pick one singe month or a particular time of year in preference over another […]
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Picture post – canal walking on the Peak Forest canal I have posted many times in the past and featured some of our canal walks. Many of those walks have taken in stretches of a canal that we really enjoy walking along – the Peak Forest canal. This blog post is a picture post that […]
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Picture post – a visit to Lymm Dam Another decent day and another visit to Lymm Dam in Cheshire. I have written and posted about a couple of previous visits, so this post is simply a ‘picture post‘ There is plenty of information about Lymm Dam online and a decent starting point is the Lymm […]
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