By far the commonest tit – in fact the commonest non water bird, period – in Attenborough is the blue tit. Here’s one snapped yesterday as I took advantage of the sunshine, and highest temperatures in many a month, to … Read More »
The weir at Beeston, snapped soon after our move to Nottingham in November 2018. See these gates? Their concrete platform is two metres above the river. In this next image, taken in late January this year, we can just make … Read More »
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Attenborough on the last day of 2020 … A happy new year to one and all …
Attenborough today
Attenborough on the first day of the last month of the first year of the third decade of the third millennium. *
This presented itself as a screen saver when I fired up this morning. And this is one of my own, shot – in a manner of speaking – at Saigon Zoo, Christmas Eve 2012.
Through the pines. Over the dunes. And onto the beach, the light in constant flux … … an Atlantic north-westerly ripping in relentless. “I’m going out”, said J, pushing through piles of sand outside our bedouin tent. “I may be … Read More »
I spoke in Afloat in the Fens of a brace of pike spotted in a small mere, amid an otherwise banal housing estate on the edge of Thrapston and fed by the Nene. Here they are. Close by, another ambush … Read More »
