Today is day one of The Wildlife Trusts annual nature challenge: 30DaysWild. Where for the month of June they encourage everyone to do one thing for your health, wellbeing, & the planet. I know that I said that I wouldn’t publish my submissions as daily blog post. Well today is the first day and everyone … More The Bee & The Thistle
Taken last month during one of our lockdown walks here are some more shots of my favourite woodland squirrel. This little fellow sat for quite some time allowing me to get as close as I dared without scaring him off. He quite happily sat within touching distance for at least 20mins if not longer watching … More Woodland Squirrel
Going out for our daily walks for exercise is giving us plenty of opportunities to enjoy nature and capture little glimpses of our wildlife along the way. This little fellow sat for ages as we watched & took photo of him during our walk the other day. In fact we gave up first and continued … More Grey Squirrel
One of the benefits of the current UK Lockdown / social distancing and being at home more than usual is having the time to notice all the wildlife that visits our garden. Most of our garden visitors are birds, including; Sparrows, Blackbirds, Pigeons, Crows, Tits, and various other birds. This little fellow settled down to … More Blackbird on the Wall
How are we all surviving lockdown / self isolating? In between spates of home working some of our extra spare time has been occupied by wildlife watching. Our living room window that looks out on to our back garden has been delighting us with views of various garden visitors. Normally our visitors are various breeds … More Back Garden Wildlife
[Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire] Robin’s may be fondly known as being the first sign of winter, but clearly no one told this little fellow that it is Spring. He was too busy enjoying the feast that Sherwood Forest had to offer.
While visiting the Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire the other weekend we managed to see some of the wildlife that have made the estate their home, including some Mandarin ducks.
[Graves Park, Sheffield] You can’t visit Grave’s Park without visiting their herd of Highland Cattle. I still love the fact that they keep highland cattle. In my opinion “real coos”, even in the wilds of Yorkshire there is a hint of my Scottish surroundings. The heat yesterday seemed to be taking its toll on the … More Highland Coo’s
Living in the city sometimes I think we all forget about the nature that is right on our doorstep, myself included. You can find a glimpse of nature in any urban space. Across the road from our own urban space we have our own little glimpse of nature. Reminding me that beauty can be found everywhere.
On a recent trip to Leeds I had the opportunity to visit a tropical house where I managed to capture some shots of butterflies.
On our recent holiday to Tenerife we visited the Jungle Park, where I captured some shots of their Meerkats.
