Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, insects, loxley valley, my patch, sheffield on July 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I braved the rain and went for a quick walk on my patch - there was only really one big shower, and I actually managed to walk for most of it in one of the few sunny spells of the day!
Very few bird highlights - 4 x drake tufted duck and 1 x baby coot at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amphibians, birds, newts, nightjars, sheffield, wharncliffe heath, woodcock on July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Call me a wuss, or call me sensible, but nocturnal birding has never been my strongpoint as I’ve never been one for wandering round lonely areas in the pitch dark on foot. So last night I siezed my chance to catch up with a couple of night-dwelling birds on a SBSG guided walk at Wharncliffe Heath.
The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agden reservoir, birds, flycatchers, sheffield on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This morning I had a walk round Agden Reservoir, with a specific aim of finding pied flycatchers. I failed miserably at this, but did catch up with their spotted cousins. The first ones I saw were a pair on Smallfield Lane, near Low Bradfield. They’re really photogenic birds due to their habit of returning to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I had a day at Old Moor today, and got good views of another (or possibly the same) spoonbill that has been on the site for the last few days. In the morning it was way on the other side of the lake and a tiny white dot, but in the afternoon it rather obligingly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Not too much tonight - a kestrel over Stacey Lane, a brown hare at Stacey Bank, and a couple of garden warblers south of the river were about it.
A few pics…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged loxley valley, my patch, photography, sheffield on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A nasty, drizzly day, and certainly not the sort you want when you have a new camera to try out!
I did manage some time without showers this morning, though, and I’m glad I got out, because I finally after 13 months of beating the same routes, got my first patch kingfisher! It was darting down the river [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, flowers, insects, loxley valley, macro, photography, plants on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few shots taken with the macro setting of the FZ18 - if any of my flower identifications are wrong please let me know!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, garden, loxley valley, mammals, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As promised, some more pictures from the FZ18. It’s amazing how well it works on ridiculously high zooms, even handheld, albeit with a loss in quality.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, insects, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well the new camera’s arrived, and I’m very pleased with it. I had a bit of a walk round with it last night, but haven’t had time to sort all the photos out. Here’s one to be going on with.
I’ll post more photos and more details soon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, damflask, loxley valley, my patch, photography, sheffield, surveys on June 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On Saturday I got up early and spent the whole morning finishing, or nearly finishing, my two surveys. Firstly I did my late visit for the BTO Breeding Bird Survey. The first thing I found as I got off the bus at Damflask were three great spotted woodpeckers, all in the same tree, which boded [...]
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