Al Fredericksson

Woodpigeon & Greenfinch

alan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:42:39 +0000

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.

Waggon & Horses, Woodpecker & Flycatcher

alan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:35:01 +0000

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 Swaledale – a Greater Spotted Woodpecker and a Spotted Flycatcher.

Gulls

alan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:34:09 +0000

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.

Tufted Ducks

alan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:41:57 +0000

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’.

Fieldfare and Wild Orchids

alan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:05:27 +0000

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.

Mute swans with cygnets

alan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:39:20 +0000

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.

Rooks, jackdaws and swans

alan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:07:08 +0000

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.

Blackbird & Redwing

alan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:26:55 +0000

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.

New insect pages….

alan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:33:39 +0000

I’ve found time at last to add pages to the insects section – mayflies, damselflies and a Southern Hawker dragonfly, all photographed earlier this year in Nottinghamshire.

Long-tailed tits

alan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:44:01 +0000

Walked down to the Trent this afternoon, and came across a small group of long-tailed tits in the hedgerow betwen Bulcote Farm and the river. Unusually, they didn’t all immediately fly off, and I was able to get a few photoraphs, which you can view here.