Al Fredericksson

The same walk around Attenborough Nature Reserve which resulted in the Cormorant and Common Darter pages also produced some photographs of a pair of Egyptian Geese. You can view them here.

I’ve added a page of photographs of a male common darter dragonfly, taken recently at Attenborough Nature Reserve. You can view them here.

Last weekend we spent a day at the Notts Wildlife Trust Reserve at Attenborough, and I’ve added a page of pictures I took of cormorants. You can view them here.

On a recent walk by the Trent, I took some photographs of a pair of yellow wagtails, sharing a hawthorn tree with some swallows. You can view the pictures here.

I’ve added two new pages today. The first is photographs of some swallows preening themselves on wires outside the Staunton Arms at Staunton-in-the-Vale in Nottinghamshire. The other shows a female Brimstone butterfly feeding from phlox flowers in our garden.

We were visited yesterday very briefly by a female black-tailed skimmer dragonfly. It rested on a fence post  just long enough for me to take two photographs, which can be seen here.

Recent additions to the site include photographs of a jay, a pair of oystercatchers, blue tits and the first flower on a spring gentian (Gentiana verna) which I’ve grown from seed.

We’ve sited a new bird feeder just outside the kitchen window, and it’s begun to attract visitors, including robins, great tits and blue tits.

Some photographs of a blue tit on the feeder can be seen here.

In view of the fact that by far the most popular page on my website is of photographs of a black swan, I have added a new page with further pictures of the same bird, from the same sighting on the River Trent near Fiskerton in February 2009. You can see them here.

Looking out of the window this afternoon, I noticed a grey bird land in the hedge at the bottom of the garden. It was too big to be a pigeon, and I realised it was a heron. I managed a few photos before it flew off. You can see them here, together withone taken at Gunthorpe in the snow last week.