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 »
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 »
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 »
Attenborough Nature Reserve and River Trent this morning.
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 »
Yesterday freezing fog hung over the Trent, and hills, woods and fields of Notts, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. For the second time this week, but in transformed weather conditions, I walked with a Sheffield pal, this one of forty years standing. … Read More »
Cold and sunny: the best weather you can get for White Peak walking. Hiking buddie Sue and I now live forty miles apart but an hour’s drive north for me, the same south for Sue, brought us to Tissington. Parking … Read More »
Mid morning yesterday, the sun working its magic on frozen fields. A kestrel looks down on a bend in the Trent upstream of Nottingham … … as coal-fired Ratcliffe on Soar keeps calm and carries on. Minutes go by. A … Read More »
“Them smokestacks reaching like the arms of God, to fill a beautiful sky with soot and clay …” Bruce Springsteen, Youngstown. Scruffily coal fired, German owned Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station is not visible in all these pictures. Just in … Read More »