photographs: people, places & things
It is what it is – pictures from being out and about
Horse field Quite often when my wife and I go walking, whether on our own or together, we frequently head off via the same route. The route takes us off our housing estate, across a local common, and onto a path that brings us to a steel gate that in turn takes us along a […]
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Getting used to a new lens Earlier this year I added a new lens to my kit bag. The rather snappily titled Sigma 105mm F2.8 X DG Macro OS HSM. It was September when I bought the lens and since then I have written a couple of posts (including pictures), and which you can check […]
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The Ashton canal – an urban walkway The Ashton canal is a short stretch of waterway that runs for a little less than seven miles and links Manchester city centre with Ashton-under-Lyne. We decided to have a walk on this canal simply for a change and to get a taste of a more urban route […]
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Etherow Country Park We recently visited one of our terrific local nature reserves – Etherow County Park, just a half dozen or so miles from home. It’s one of those places that we have been to many times over the years, going as far back as when our own children were small and our walk […]
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Winter is on the way The morning clouds look heavy, the sky looks grey and the steady sound of raindrops gusting onto the window don’t make me feel like venturing outside just yet. Today has got a wintery feel to it, although in practice It will actually be another four or five weeks before the […]
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Part five of the heron watch This is the last of the blog post of this weeks ‘heron watch’ series. You can go to Part 1 at this link and you will find links to the other daily posts from there. What has been proved without doubt is the grey heron really is capable when […]
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Competent fishing Day 4 of my week of watching the Grey Herons fishing on the Peak Forest canal was rewarded with some decent results as the heron plucked out a number of fish in quick succession. In keeping with most of the herons we see this chap was feeding alone and wading with great stealth […]
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Quick fire fishing The third part of this weeks Heron Watch allowed me to see the Heron in fine fishing form. Within the space of less than two minutes and almost as soon as I had positioned myself on the bank opposite to where he stood he had found, caught and swallowed three fish! With […]
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Heron Fishing watch – Part 2 Following on from Part 1 of this weeks Grey Heron watch, Part 2 features a sequence of pictures of the Grey Heron catching an early breakfast offering. This catch wasn’t quite as routine as most … as the heron brought the fish to the surface and out of the […]
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Frequent fishers I have posted before about the Grey Herons that we regularly see on our local waterways. We never tire of seeing these big birds, and realistically Herons are probably the biggest birds that most of us in England will get to see on a regular basis. It’s only recently that we have been […]
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