I have been waiting so long for these babies, bearing in mind that I photographed their act of conception, I think they should be called Huey, Dewey and Louie,, “There once was an ugly duckling,….

They are only a day or two old and even though I sensed they had hatched. Mum was doing a very good job of hiding them, so these pics took three trips past and the best part of two hours of waiting and photographing to capture.

Enjoy.

I love this image of the Heron tossing a small fish to go down the right way, it is just perfection. 

For the last twenty weeks or so I have been engrossed in one online course or another.  Firstly starting with a photoshop course and then heading straight into a ten week course from the Open University combined with the Royal Photographic Society.  It has been quite intense, submitting ten photos a week tends to do that to a girl, but yesterday I submitted my final ten and nearly 700 words of supportive work and now I can breath and play with some of my new found skills. I am definitely still in the embryonic stage of learning photoshop, but at least now I know what some of the buttons do and can at least remove an offending twig and the image still looks good. And more to the point I am starting to enjoy it now, which I didn’t before, so on that note I am off to play some more. I quite like this retirement lark! 

I make no apologies for this large series of images, it is the first time I have seen a Great Spotted Woodpecker in the wild and trust me I have looked and along with that my camera was ready and poised for action. I believe this is a female as the males have a red spot on their heads which doesn’t appear to be there and it was absolutely heavenly to watch her move around looking for bugs in the bark. A very happy moment in what was a lovely sunny Sunday – its gone back to dreary cold glove weather, what can you do eh. 

What could be finer.