Tag Archives: fauna

goodbye to all that…

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for now, at least (fingers crossed)……. I am, of course, talking about the very exciting news that after weeks of heavy rain across parts of the UK, conditions are set to improve for many areas this weekend. over the next few days, the much talked about jet stream is expected to move to its more …

there be birds

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we have had birds nesting in our eaves every year since we have lived here. it’s wonderful watching the adult birds coming and going from their little hole in our house. in Spring their mouths come laden with twigs and sticks and in Summer one bird is constantly to-ing and fro-ing with a variety of …

Anas Urbanus…

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…or urban ducks for short. during our recent trip to Norwich to visit my wonderful Mum and sister I took lots of great pictures, mostly of family members in various energetic poses. for some reason, I also took quite a few of some ducks that followed us around some of the city’s back streets, probably …

high as a kite

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walking around the picturesque village of Combe in Oxfordshire today, I happened to point my camera skyward and capture this amazing image of a red kite on the prowl (do birds of prey prowl? or just hover menacingly? answers on a postcard, please). I captured some fab images of a quintessentially English village, of which …