Al Fredericksson

Common Buzzard

alan — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:24:53 +0000

Today added a couple of photographs of buzzards which we saw flying near the River Trent between Gunthorpe and Hoveringham last month.

Egyptian Geese at Attenborough Nature Reserve

alan — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:39:17 +0000

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.

Common Darter Dragonfly at Attenborough

alan — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:21:54 +0000

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

Cormorants at Attenborough

alan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:10:38 +0000

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.

Yellow Wagtails

alan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:11:33 +0000

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.

Swallows & Brimstone Butterfly

alan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:20:00 +0000

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.

Black-tailed Skimmer Dragonfly

alan — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:47:53 +0000

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.

Jay, Oystercatchers, Blue Tits and a Gentian

alan — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:11:52 +0000

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.

Blue Tit

alan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:18:14 +0000

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.

Black Swan 2

alan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:40:35 +0000

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.