This being the weekend of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, we’ve been doing quite a lot of bird feeder filling and staring out of our windows at the resultant flocks of feathered friends. In fact, on Friday, not being above…
Year: 2010
Un-Ubuntu-ed
I had a very old desktop computer (128Mb RAM/10Gb HD) running Windows 98. I had been hanging onto it because I also had an old Epson Filmscan 200 35mm slide film scanner for which there are no drivers above Windows…
Distressin’ Damsels
Last year, I began pursuing my long-standing love of butterflies, camera in hand, at our local Sandhouse Lane Nature Reserve. However, I soon became distracted by Sandhouse Lane’s array of odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) which provided a fresh photographic interest.…
Talk of the Devil
Yesterday we were In Search of the Holy Grail in the form of one of our rarer avian garden visitors, a Treecreeper. No sooner had we been thinking, “wouldn’t it be nice if we got a shot of a Treecreeper”,…
Holy Grail
Since we’ve been all but snowed in for much of the recent winter, we’ve been visited by an even wider collection of bird life than usual. To pass the time, we’ve been pointing various photographic devices at our feathered friends…
Protection Rackets
A few weeks ago when we had red berries in our garden and Redwings were in town after them, I noticed that our local Blackbirds appeared to be getting aggressive trying to chase the Redwings away. Since then, the red…
Stick and Ball
Yesterday it snowed most of the day and today the snow was thawing noticeably. What fun trying to guess what might happen next. Walking into town to get a few provisions for us and another 3kgs of sunflower kernels for…
More Winter, More Visitors
Just when I thought life was beginning to thaw out a little, today the snow started again. Well, to be completely accurate I think it started sometime overnight judging by the fresh covering we had at breakfast. So, another day…
Winter Pastimes
One thing one can do, if one is a sad individual, is shelter from the winter freeze indoors spending hours and hours redesigning a Web site. For some time now, I’d been thinking that the colours on our site were…
Inappropriate Names
It was our 2005 trip to Crete that started me thinking this way. After the highlight of the trip, a stunning walk down the impressive Samaria Gorge, we caught a ferry to Loutro, a delightful village round a horseshoe-shaped bay…
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