Meanwhile, today at Attenborough …
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Apr
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Category Archives: travel
My spring watch nature walk today
25
Mar
Bus to Sawley Marina for five mile walk down the Trent, through Attenborough and home. I’ve yet to get a decent cormorant shot. They’re around – but flying overhead without warning and at speed or, as here, two hundred metres … Read More »
The Derbyshire Derwent
22
Mar
A five minute walk from my door gets me to Beeston Station, where in Wednesday’s bright sunshine Jasper and I took the 09:25 to Matlock by way of Long Eaton, Derby and the Amber Valley halts of Duffield, Belper, Ambergate, … Read More »
The Dog and Goose
9
Mar
It’s seldom discussed in polite circles but an unleashed dog can aid the avian photographer. A tyro trying to raise his game, I last night consulted one site’s top tips for freeze-framing birds in flight. Heading the list was learning … Read More »
Bittern by the bird bug at Attenborough
8
Mar
On Tuesday Jasper and I took the bus to Long Eaton, getting off at Nelson Street where road runs parallel to Erewash Canal, with only the tow path and a knee high brick wall between the two. We walked that … Read More »
Kayaking the Trent
27
Feb
With today forecast as the last day of this gorgeous if worrying weather, I took the kayak out for the first time since the Norfolk Broads in August. I put in at Trentlock, where the Erewash Canal joins the Trent … Read More »
Mist on the water
24
Feb
Attenborough Nature Reserve and River Trent this morning.
Spring in Britain
23
Feb
It’s worryingly early and, with temperature highs of eighteen centigrade – that’s close to sixty-five fahrenheit for oldsters like me – uncommon warm. But that’s no excuse for not getting out to enjoy the upside. Today around Attenborough and River … Read More »
From a Baptist Church in New Orleans
13
Feb
Deaconess: For all who are victims of trafficking and enforced prostitution … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. Deaconess: For all who are victims of violence, racism and murder … Choir singing: Lord hear our prayer. * I’ve had race … Read More »
Today in New Orleans
5
Feb
The Mississippi this morning … A walk down Magazine Street to Lafayette Cemetery, stopping for coffee, shelter from ten minute deluge and po’ boy lunch. Tour of the graves. Mahdi Gras preparations everywhere. Streetcar up St Charles Avenue to Audubon … Read More »