Spotted Crake at Greylake 2012
September 18, 2012
I must be one of the last local people to visit this charming little bird. After an abortive attempt yesterday, I struck lucky and had 10 minutes happily snapping away at...
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White-rumped sandpiper in Somerset
September 16, 2012
I've hardly been out with the camera over the last few months but had a couple of chances over the last two days. This coincided with an obliging white-rumped sandpiper,...
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Great White Egrets in Somerset - July Update
July 17, 2012
Having followed the evolving drama of the new settlers at Shapwick Heath NNR in Somerset, it was great to watch a second couple of egrets nest building some 400m away fro...
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Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis) at Shapwick Heath
July 16, 2012
Just for a change from the Great White Egrets, I had a morning looking for insects and spiders yesterday. Unfortunately the pouring rain meant that the white admirals tha...
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Video of Cranes on Aller Moor from 2011
June 08, 2012
If you don't know about the amazing Great Crane Project, if not please check out their website with up to date news and photographs. They also have a Flickr site where pe...
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Which Great White Egret is Which at Shapwick Heath??
June 06, 2012
OK, I confess I'm confused. Despite spending many hours watching the egrets on Noah's Lake, I confess that I don't know how many there are and I'm now developing uncertai...
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Great White Egrets at Shapwick Heath
June 02, 2012
It's now official that there has been breeding success at Shapwick Heath NNR and Mike Hannon captured the first pictures of a chick later shown on the BBC Wildlife site a...
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Skylark Meadows - Plant and Insect Photography
May 29, 2012
When Rob Chace invited me to help out with an 'Open Day' at a nature reserve with a brief to help budding photographers photograph plants and insects I hesitated. I tried...
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Great White Egrets nesting in Somerset
May 27, 2012
' Great White Egrets nesting in Somerset' - so ran the headline in the press earlier this month when Natural England and then the BBC and the Somerset Ornithological Soci...
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Black-Winged Stilt (and More) at Lodmoor in Weymouth
May 25, 2012
I've been showing decidedly 'twitchy' behaviour recently having chased after and photographed the squacco heron at Blagdon, the great reed warbler at Weston-super-Mare an...
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