A few photos from a recent visit to a cold and misty Leighton Moss….. a rare opportunity to try the camera out at ISO 6400 🙂 – but it was really, really cold. Plus a Starling or two . Read More …
Tag: Scarlet Elf Cup
Leighton Moss
A later than usual start to the day but there’s few better ways of starting the new year than a visit to Leighton Moss. Great to see plenty of Marsh Tits around the fringes of the moss. Sadly across the rest of the country they’re Read More …
Leighton Moss
Little Egret on the hunt close to the Grisedale hide. Hard to believe but I’m now the wrong side of 50! To celebrate we continued with a time-honoured, tradition of taking a couple of days off work with one of them being spent at the RSPB’s Read More …
National Treasure
Scots Pine growing in the limestone pavement at Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve. The dry conditions result in Pines and Ash trees that typically grow extremely slowly. Naturally stunted many of these trees are several hundred years old. Primrose – the foodplant for the caterpillars Read More …
Death and Glory
Scarlet Elf Cups amongst the moss covered debris on the woodland floor in Didsbury. 70mph winds, saturated ground and a few old favourites come crashing down. Thankfully the park authorities leave the shattered limbs in place helping to ensure there’s a plentiful supply of Read More …
Elfcups and Flying Lollipops
A few highlights from the past week. Fortunately we missed the worst of the snow whilst Bolton and Wigan were hit by blizzards we received a couple of inches of slush. By mid-day on Saturday most of it was gone. There now appears to Read More …
A Wet & Muddy Christmas
Well I suppose at this time of year we ought to be grateful so thank God it’s not been cold because if it was we could be under 8ft of snow. It’s rained every day now for the past 3 weeks whilst the binoculars are Read More …
1st day of Spring
Whilst officially Spring doesn’t begin until mid March over the past couple of weeks its finally started to slowly arrive. In fact after spending a day walking around in the sunshine close to Morecambe Bay we’ve decided that this year Spring arrived on the 19th Read More …