Author: Dan
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Rainy Sunday
It’s been raining all weekend, but it hasn’t stopped the birds making an appearance. In fact I think they’re enjoying it after all the heat we’ve had recently.
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Otters at Martin Mere
It’s taking me a while to edit all the Martin Mere photos, just doing them in batches when I get chance. Here are the otters!
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Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
We sat in the garden for a while after work the other day, and noticed how many bees (honey and bumble) there were around these alliums and echinops. Watching them made me think of spaceships orbiting small planets. Maybe I’ve been playing too much Outer Wilds! Also captured a butterfly and a pigeon!
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Owlets
Manged to get some slightly better pictures of the two tawny owlets. Still a bit dark, but they turned out ok.
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Twilight Fox
For most of the fox photos I’ve got so far, they’ve been in our neighbour’s garden and I’ve been shooting out of a bedroom window or over the hedge. But we’ve been seeing a couple of the fox cubs venturing into our own garden in recent evenings, so I put a bit of food out…
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My First Kingfisher
I had never seen a kingfisher in the wild before, and was losing hope as we started getting ready to go home from Martin Mere. Then we went in one final hide, and within 5 minutes my wife pointed out a kingfisher sitting on a branch just above the water. I managed to get one…
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Flamingos at Martin Mere
We went to Martin Mere Wetland Centre recently while visiting family. I got a lot of photos, which I’m still sorting and editing, so I’ll post them gradually over the next week or so as I get through them. Here’s a flamboyance of flamingos to begin with.
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Blackbirds
Perhaps not the most glamorous of birds, but there is definitely something charming about the ever-present blackbird, and I love hearing its song, even when I’m letting the dog out for a poo at 5am! That last photo gave me a good laugh, the way he’s almost a perfect circle and just staring at me…
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Parakeets
There are some parakeets in our local park, and we hear them all the time, but it can be hard to spot them, partly because they blend in with the leaves so well. But today I finally got lucky and one of them posed for me for a while. Also saw a jay and a…
