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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.
What's in the garden
Spotted Flycatcher
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Redstart.
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Green Woodpecker
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Swallow
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Green-veined white and Wood white
Green-veined white
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Wood white
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Field Cricket
Field Cricket: Gryllus
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Field Crickets are extremely rare in the UK and classified as endangered.
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Photographs taken in my garden in France
Slow worm
Slow worm
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Oradour-Sur Glene
Oradour-sur-Glane
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in then Nazi-occupied France was destroyed,
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when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a Nazi Waffen-SS company.
A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle ordered the original maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.
Little Owl
Little Owl
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Little Owls do well in the area and are easy to find.
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I found this dead Little Owl just down the road from my house by the side of the road, could have been hit by a car.
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Whiskered Tern
Whiskered Tern photographed in the Brenne
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Better light would have been good
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