Tag: photography
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A murmuration of Jackdaws
Murmuration is a word usually associated with Starlings, as far as I knew at any rate. But yesterday evening it came to mind immediately as hundreds of Jackdaws swirled in the skies above, presumably on their way to their roost for the night from their various local territories, one of which, for six or seven…
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Maria Vincent Robinson, photographer extraordinaire
https://mariavincentrobinson.com/ This is an entirely unsolicited appreciation of the work of this truly brilliant photographer. His work is for me amongst the best I have ever seen, anywhere. I have his permission to post a couple of examples here, but I urge you to visit his website. The wildlife photographs appeal to me particularly, but…
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Garden birds III
Just a few observations and thoughts. I have been watching the pair of Dunnocks, a species described by the British Trust for Ornithology as having an “interesting” sex life, elsewhere as promiscuous, polygamous and indulging in “sneaky mating”. They are rather dismissively described by the BTO as a “little brown bird” and by others as…
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An unexpected garden visitor
This totally made my day. I looked up from my usual morning crossword and coffee to see at 7 am, to my amazement, a male muntjac deer just a few feet from the window of my summerhouse. When I first saw him, I ruled out muntjac on the grounds of size – he seemed enormous.…
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Garden Birds II, April 2024
Garden Birds II, April 2024 When my brother and I were young, a highlight of school holidays was a visit to Uncle Fred, our great-uncle on my mother’s side, a retired engineer who was married to her mother’s sister. He lived, alone after her death, in a large house in Pangbourne on the Thames (he…