Al Fredericksson

Over the years, I’ve come across quite a few people who have volunteered, often reluctantly, to play the organ at their church or chapel because there was nobody else to do it, on the basis that they play, or used to play the piano. After the initial shock of discovering that the organ doesn’t have [...]

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Walked by the river yesterday at Burton Joyce, and saw lots of geese, Canada & Greylag on the river. Around sunset, lots more flew in to roost on the fields across the river. Some photographs can be viewed here.

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One of our neighbours has a colony of red-tailed bumble bees, which has occupied a birds’ nest box in the garden. The box is fastened to a tree at eye level, so it was quite easy to get close to photograph them. Even just watching for an hour or so, the different kinds of behaviour [...]

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We went on a very pleasant walk with a group from Burton Joyce on Thursday to see the bluebells in Ploughman Wood, a local Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust reserve. As well as the bluebells, I’ve also added photographs I took on the walk of Greater Stitchwort, Wood Anemones and Yellow Archangel. On the way back, I photographed a very [...]

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After another splendid lunch at the Waggon & Horses at Halam yesterday to celebrate my Mum’s birthday, we were driving along a lane towards Oxton, when we had to pull over to let a car pass in the opposite direction. Just in the field on our left was a hare, which stayed around long enough [...]

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The rookery next to the Old Main Road in Bulcote is a hive of activity at the moment, with lots of nest building going on. The ash tree at the bottom of our garden is a favourite source of nesting material for the rooks, which come and break off quite large twigs. I managed to [...]

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Two more pages from last year’s photographs – a woodpigeon trying to bathe in a birdbath intended for smaller birds, and a greenfinch throwing seed from a feeder to the tray below where a young bird was waiting to feed.

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Had a great lunch again yesterday at the Waggon & Horses at Halam, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The sunshine, and birds chattering away in the hedges by the car park made the day almost like spring – except that the temperature was hardly above freezing! This morning I’ve added new pages from last summer’s holiday in [...]

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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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