Martyn Pitt

Obviously a wise man .... a mistake I made all those years ago, although in fairness I needed a baby sitter at the time 😁

I could have taken that stood up 😁

Sad to hear this, condolences to his family. Rest in peace Chico.

That is sad news ... RIP Manu

Life of Pi

My new messaging system 😉

My mate waded out and held a mirror behind the Grebe ... we tried it with the Telegraph but it wasn't the same😘

A Great Crested Grebe from a gloomy Saturday

Steve you think that is heavily cropped ... how about this a Red Kite over a mile away 😀 We had three drift through yesterday morning, all distant, following the M6 south, obviously not effected by the roadworks

2 Weeks ago we had a couple at Belvide, just checked the first one was on 22nd Feb

They love the berries on Rowan / Mountain Ash trees, which were used a great deal in landscaping schemes for shopping centres and supermarket car parks. My neighbour has a Rowan tree in his garden, my record is 33 Waxwing on my roof, unfortunately I have not seen any this year, we needed a colder winter to push the birds south.

I though it was Tony trying to escape 🤫

When you look straight up at the night sky you are looking through the atmosphere at its narrowest thickness, when you look at the horizon at an angle through the atmosphere you are looking through it's thickest part and more likely to distort images, air temperature and movement can have an added effect on image quality as well, described as good or bad seeing by astronomers. Next week on ask Martyn ... how to knit fog

This little beauty was on my lawn at lunchtime, I managed to open a bedroom window without spooking him

A couple of Swans from the other week ... the lone one is doing it's famous Bittern impersonation

We are convinced it's down to the lack of cold weather, I have seen Oystercatchers mating, and the Pigeons have been at it on our garden fence 😲

The light was great yesterday, but the birds were thin on the ground ... still managed to get a shot of these posers, male Reed Bunting and female Blackbird enjoying the Sun.

One went through JM auction for around £950, I have seen for sale at £850 .... (in the 90's £30).

Cheers Steve, it had been a pretty poor morning, awful light and not much of interest to photograph, the other lads had had enough and were making their way home, I decided to give it 30 minutes in the first hide on the off chance a Kingfisher would oblige when I spotted these Reed Buntings having a go at the fraggie heads fairly close and visible on the edge of the reed bed, made it all worthwhile.

A few more of the Reed Buntings, male and female

If you pm me an email address you can have the larger high res version 👍

This is now my desktop wallpaper ... shot on a gloomy morning at Belvide, three Reed Buntings were feasting on the fraggy seed heads, this female posed nicely for me. I shall post a couple more when I have processed them, showing how well camouflaged they are amongst the reeds

He was at the last Willington Steve, best dancer in the room by a mile

Sad to hear of her passing, enjoyed her music and her contributions to Soul Source, but most of all I really enjoyed dancing to her music these past forty odd years R.I.P Lorraine

This one was really keen to have it's photo taken, so I obliged