Al Fredericksson

Another trawl through photographs taken last year produced several of gulls at Rufford Country Park. These have been “tweaked” in Photoshop for dramatic effect, much more than I usually do.

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Walked by the River Trent from Bulcote to Burton Joyce this morning. A flock of 100+ tufted ducks was swimming on the swollen river. Some of the time they were in several smaller groups, but at one point almost all of them were swimming upstream ‘line astern’.

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Fieldfare have been visiting the garden during the long period of cold weather, looking for berries. I’ve managed a few long-distance photographs of them. I’ve also added some of the pictures of wild orchids I took during a Wildlife Trust walk near Nottingham last summer.

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I’ve built up quite a backlog of photographs, and going through some, I found these of mute swans with cygnets taking a ride on a parent’s back, taken at the end of May last year, on the Trent near Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire.

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Two more pages from the New Year’s Eve walk by the River Trent: rooks & jackdaws flying in to roost, and a flock of mute swans flying past the rooks, crossing the river, then flying overhead and towards the setting sun.

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Walked to Gunthorpe on New Year’s Eve. Saw a blackbird guarding a prize source of berries by the roadside, and in the fading light on the way back, a redwing in the field next to the footpath.

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