Nature Notes: my last walk of 2020 through Gunby Park
Wildlife, sunshine, frost, mist, and favourite local views If 2020 has been the year of keeping it local, then my New Year’s Eve walk has reinforced that theme.…
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My top images of 2020
Connections, light, and learning: a look at the best of my wildlife and landscape photography this year. In the past I’ve sometimes selected five top images from the…
Nature Notes: selected landscape photography, autumn 2020
Now that winter is upon us, here’s a selection of a few of my favourite images from autumn 2020. Each year, my photography goes through seasons that mirror…
What I’ve been reading this week, 31 October 2020
The trouble with pheasants, different perspectives on the Cairngorms, the transition month of October, and the campaign for free access to our landscapes. Nature and environment Pheasant and…
Nature Notes: wildlife photography, summer 2020
It’s been a while since my last wildlife photo blog. That’s simply because I haven’t been taking as many photos, and that’s because wildlife sightings have, accordingly, declined;…
Nature notes: recent nature and wildlife photography, 18 July 2020
Stellar invertebrates, birds, and local rewilding I didn’t post a ‘nature notes’ blog post last week, because my wildlife photography has become a lot less prolific over the…
Nature notes: this week’s nature and wildlife photography, 4 July 2020
A bewitching encounter with a roe deer, meadow brown butterflies galore, and – finally – a whitethroat fledgling. The weather hasn’t been great this week again. It’s been…
Nature notes: this week’s nature and wildlife photography, 28 June 2020
Highlights this week include reed buntings, lesser whitethroats, a contemplative brown hare, and the moorhen chicks. It’s midsummer, and in an average year my photographic mojo hits rock…
Nature notes: this week’s nature and wildlife photography, 21 June 2020
It’s been a quiet week, but not without some exciting wildlife sightings. The week began with days of fog, a result of the haar coming in off the…
Nature notes: this week’s nature photography, 14 June 2020
This week it has been all about the fledglings – and a very special raptor sighting. The weather has been a little better this week than last, although…
Nature Notes: this week’s nature photography, 7 June 2020
It’s been a relatively quiet week for nature sightings thanks to some wet and windy weather, but I’ve still had some fantastic moments on my morning walks. This…
Nature notes: Latest wildlife photography, May 2020
The first in a new series of blog posts on my latest nature and wildlife images. Four weeks ago, I published a blog post called ‘The voices of…