Al Fredericksson

I’ve done a bit of trawling through pre-website photographs, and found some of a red squirrel, taken at Skygarth Farm, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Cumbria, UK in the summer of 2006. You can view these on the unsurprisingly named Red Squirrel page.

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Three more pages added from the recent weekend in Wharfedale: sheep and lambs at Grassington;  jackdaws and a kestrel seen at Bolton Abbey.

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A very enjoyable couple of days spent in Wharfedale included a very pleasant walk along the River Wharfe upstream of Grassington. A pair of goosanders was quite unconcerned that we were close by, and we were able to watch them for about twenty minutes. Some of the resulting photographs are posted on goosanders page.

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Managed two walks last weekend: one from Hoveringham to Gunthorpe; the other the spring walk organised by Bulcote Social. Among the photographs I took were some of a water vole feeding, a great-crested grebe which stayed nearer to the riverbank we were walking along than they usually do, and patches of bright yellow lesser celendines. These […]

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A large flock of wigeon was grazing across the River Trent near Shelford yesterday, and I managed some photos in failing light. 

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After a very pleasant lunch at the Bromley Arms at Fiskerton on Saturday, we walked along the Trent to Hazleford Ferry. On the way there and back I photographed a group of mute swans and a single black swan.

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Walking past Bulcote farm buildings this morning, the birds which perch on the roofs of the farm buildings suddenly flew off, looking a bit like flocks of starlings getting ready to roost. But one bird was flying differently from all the others; this was a hawk. For five minutes or so, it tried to isolate […]

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