Thursday, 30 June 2011

Wedding Birds

It isn’t often you get to indulge your hobbies/interests during a wedding, but my son and daughter-in-law were good enough to arrange a Birds of Prey display at their wedding on 26 June and what a treat!  Here are a few of the photos I took.

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UNEXPECTED GUEST 2

And of course I can’t NOT include one of the happy couple, so here they are!  My baby and his wife.

HAPPY COUPLE

And here’s one of the castle from the back – showing how the fire of the weekend before destroyed one whole wing!

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From the front

PECKFORTON NIGHT ASH

Friday, 24 June 2011

Garden Life

My favourite time of year and I’ve managed to get some great photos, despite being so busy.  The birds in this tiny garden have been very compliant :-)

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Friday, 13 May 2011

1st May

Finally got some time out for a change and what a delight!  Some lovely wildlife on offer and the first damsels and dragonflies of the year.

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red damsel good

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Saturday, 6 November 2010

Last weekend

blue tit

Yep, I love blue tits, but I especially love this one below.

This is my favourite little bird, the coal tit.  Isn’t it tiny?

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coal tit

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And I finally got a photo of the woodpecker which wasn’t blurred, though as the light disappeared the rest were really grainy.

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Quickie post

Well, I took LOADS of photos this morning but most of them were blurred.  Duh!  Must try harder.  I had some great shots of nuthatches, blue tits, coal tits, marsh tits, a jay and a great spotted woodpecker but they’re all total rubbish, so have been consigned to the Recycle bin.

Here are the few I salvaged.

Great tit on feeder crop

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I love these.  Nature’s so clever.  They were really frilly and I thought at first they were dead leaves because that’s just what they look like.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Peckforton and Birds of Prey

Yesterday, I went with my son and his future wife to visit the venue of their wedding, which will be in June next year.

This is it.

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Pretty impressive, huh?

As part of the ceremony, they’ll be having a Birds of Prey display and some of the birds were out on their perches yesterday, so I took a few photos.

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