RSPB Sandy

As ever, I don't really have the proper photographic kit to take decent bird photographs (See my RSPB Fowlmere post for further comments about the importance of size), but it was still a very fine afternoon and I managed to find a variety of interesting and rather lovely things to photograph. I may have even seen a raven, or I may have deluded myself, but either way I didn't manage to get a decent picture.

I definitely saw buzzards and red kites, plus magpies and pigeons and a squirrel, but yet again, no photos were taken, or those that were, were not up to it. Oh well...

Click here for further information about The Lodge Nature Reserve at Sandy.

RSPB Fowlmere

I realise that size does not matter, male friends have been telling me that for years, but I allowed myself to have lens-envy when I saw all the photographers with mammoth lenses in the hides at RSPB Fowlmere. Their photographs must be something to see, but this is a selection of my photographs as taken with my decidedly small telephoto lens during an April visit to Fowlmere. Photographically speaking, of course, there will be many better bird photos out there, but you do what you can with what you've got.

Spring Shots

Nothing especially profound or meaningful, or even photographically that excellent. Just some photos taken in the last month that remind me Spring is here.

Some photos did, however, involve damage to the photographer (make a note: kneeling on baby nettles in leggings is a bad idea...)