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Hello and welcome
I have always had a keen interest in wildlife and the great outdoors;
I was an Angler for over 30 years but gave it up a few years ago to
concentrate on photographing wildlife. I lived in Runcorn; Cheshire a
short distance from the M56 that gave me great access to the Wirral,
Northwales and Lancashire, with some great countryside on my doorstep
I didn't have to travel too far in search of wildlife and photographic
opportunities.
Some of my wildlife photographs range from as far afield as Cuba,
Antigua, Saint Martin, Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic, Tuscany ,
Corfu, Turkey, Spain, Portugal.
I now live in the Charente area of western France.
Waiting for the Kingfisher to show
My hopes weren’t very high this morning as I waited for the Kingfisher to show.
The lights poor today and I have not seen the Kingfisher for a few days.
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After a long wait the Kingfisher showed briefly and I was able to snatch a few shots in better light
before it disappeared from view, flying off into the distance.
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Fungi
Autumn is the time to get your camera out and photograph fungi
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Fly Agaric
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Shaggy Ink Cap
Black Redstart
Record shot of a Black Redstart
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I have been having problems uploading images to my blog, it’s taken two days for Zenfolio to sort it out.
I have had to change my browser to Google chrome to make it work again.
Should not have had to do that as I was happy with Internet Explorer.
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I do need to get better shots of them
Wheatear
Female Wheatear
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Pea Soup
Last of the Glossy Ibis shots.
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Glossy Ibis Photographs
Still working through my Glossy Ibis photographs taken at Horwich, Bolton.
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Glossy Ibis
Glossy Ibis at Horwich, Greater Manchester
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The one that got away
All Angler’s tell the same sad tale of the big fish that got away
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I think the Kingfisher had problems with the spines on the stickleback so it let it go
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More in the folder
Garden Carpet
Garden Carpet Moth
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Common Wainscot Moth
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Mother of Pearl Moth
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Silver Y Moth
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A sting in the Tail
I found this Wasp in my moth trap this morning.
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I am still in the process of identifying them, so I thought I would upload some Dragonflies
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Who's the Daddy
Crane fly.... Daddy longlegs
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Spider on the web
It’s a good time to get your macro lens out and photograph garden spiders.
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A thorn in my side
Some moths can be very difficult to identify.
After taking advice it looking like a Dusky Thorn Moth.
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The Kingfisher and the Caddis larvae
The Kingfisher dived into the water and emerged with a caddis larvae case and behaved in much
the same way as it would with a fish.
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It started hitting the case against the branch to extract the larvae
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Just missed it.