It was an extremely cold weekend this Easter in the Yorkshire Dales and due to health reasons I was confined to barracks. We had friends staying over and went to the site Barn Dance on Saturday Evening which was a fairly enjoyable evening. Thank you friends for your great company. I did manage to get … Read more
Finally got around to going to our static caravan at Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales. This is our first visit this year. Haven’t been here for over 3 months so really glad to be back. Filled the feeders and repaired the perches ready for the year. Didn’t take long for the birds to start appearing. … Read more
With all the recent bad weather the garden has been busy with the regular bird visitors. There has also been a few unusual birds as well. Over the last few days I’ve kept a record of the number of birds visiting each day. Although there has been 30 species I still can’t beat my day … Read more
Another day at home with poor weather. The birds are starting to use the new perches but I need to find a better way of fixing them. Pigeons, Jackdaws, Rooks and Magpies are too heavy and are either knocking them down or moving them. Here are a few shots on the perches which I’m still … Read more
Last couple of days has seen an improvement in the temperature but there are still a few visitors to the garden that are normally only here in the really cold times. The lone female Brambling is still about, as are a few Siskins. Still got the usual birds like Long-tailed Tits, Bullfinches, Chaffinches, Greenfinches and … Read more
I spent an hour watching the birds in the garden yesterday and was surprised at the number of different species that I saw. Here’s a list of everything I saw Blackbird, Blackcap, Black-headed Gull, Blue Tit, Brambling, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Jackdaw, Jay, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Nuthatch, Ring-necked … Read more
I decided to write a description of my noise reduction workflow in the hope that it helps someone. I don’t do any noise reduction in Lightroom or Photoshop as I don’t think they are very good. Just my opinion and others will probably disagree. I use the Photoshop plugin of Neat Image and this is … Read more
The perches are now being used but not on a regular basis. Spent half an hour trying to get shots of the Bullfinches on them but they wouldn’t play. Whilst waiting 3 Long-tailed Tits made a brief appearance and I did manage to get one on one of the perches. A step in the right … Read more
Decided that I needed to get some decent perches set up in the garden to try and get some decent shots of the Bullfinches and the Goldcrest. Managed to get some branches from the local wood that although not perfect are a lot better than I had before. Placed them near to the feeders and … Read more
I took a trip to Adel Dam yesterday. Weather was cold at -2C but the sun was out with blue skies. Took a few shots of the Great Spotted Woodpecker, Robins and Mallards along with a few others. I was talking to some other people in the hide and when I turned back to my … Read more