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31st January 2009	So the weather has not been good for photography, and couple that to the fact that we returned home from Cornwall on Saturday last to find that the computer wouldn't boot, there haven't been any updates I'm afraid. However, after a complete restore of windows and aol we got partially running, and today I managed to re-install FrontPage, so I can edit, if not update the site!! After this get's up, I'll not be updating again for at least a week, as the move happens next week, and the BT line won't be installed until next Friday!!!

13th January 2008	Well, I've finally got round to putting up a whole raft of pictures, Magpies and Hooded Crows, landscapes from the Isle of Mull and the Antrim Coast, and I've added some extra pictures to the Belfast page too.

8th January 2009	Well, a belated Happy New Year to anyone who is reading this, we've been a bit busy, dashing off to Cornwall so Kim can see the house we are going to rent, dealing with a burst pipe in the garage block here, the morning after the coldest night for ages at approx -10c. However, finally got out with Brian and Chris today to Hawling, over in the Cotswolds, for Short Eared Owls, some pictures can be seen here.


29th December 08	Back from Christmas in Northern Ireland, which was great fun and a great place, some pictures from Belfast can be found here. Damn it, I find that Waxwings have been just moments away from home in Littledean!!

16th December 08	At last, Waxwings have reached the south western part of the country, and a small group have spent a couple of days in Hereford, and their pictures are here.

15th December 08	Well, there's been quite a lot to update people on around here. It has been a quiet autumn from this wildlife photographers perspective, with little occurring of note, that hasn't happened in previous years. So there are good numbers of Short-eared Owls at Aust Warth, a Bittern has turned up again in the reedbed outside the Zeiss Hide at Slimbridge and my garden Siskins vacated back in early November (late) and returned on the 8th of December. ( 2 weeks earlier than the previous earliest date) The autumn colours in the Forest of Dean have been spectacular, and I've posted a few examples on the site, as well as some shots taken in the early part of the autumn in the Elan Valley, on a squally but bright day, which showed the colours on the moors off beautifully. Brian, Chris and I have established a feeder site at the lower car-park at New Fancy, which is very accessible, and is drawing in all the usual suspects (both birds and human!) and had good numbers of brambling very early on. But I guess the big news is that I am about to move to Constantine in Cornwall, about 4 miles from Falmouth, which will provide a very different set of opportunities and challenges for me. It will provide the opportunity to study a small area of the coast path in some detail, an area that is rich in butterflies and moths, and where I have long suspected that Clouded Yellows might over-winter. Now I will have the opportunity to find out!! Choughs live and breed on the Lizard, some 12 miles away, and so it goes on.......watch this space. However, it does mean that I'm going to be very busy for the next three months or so, so up-dates to the site are likely to be a bit sporadic I'm afraid.