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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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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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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Visiting Reddish Vale country park In the last couple of weeks we have made the short journey from home to a local beauty spot – Reddish Vale Country Park. Despite Reddish Vale being described on the official web site as ‘spanning 161 hectares along the River Tame in the heart of Stockport’, it really isn’t […]
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