and they're back!
23rd September 2019
It has been a while since my last blog, lots of reasons really but August isn't my favourite month to do any photography. The birds are usually in eclipse and the fields busy with harvest, fertilising and digging so all my usual subjects aren't willing to pose for the camera.
Frogs, toads and newts have kept me going, along with bat watching in the evening and baby deer in the field beside the house.
Sometimes its not about the photograph but the overall thrill and privilege of seeing truely, wild, wildlife! I had an couple of exciting opportunities with a very black coloured water vole but despite several follow up sessions didn't make another appearance for me.
I also had a couple of morning sessions with a young badger, it's never a good thing to see a youngster out in daylight so again my opportunities were brief but nevertheless what an experience of actually seeing one behaving naturally, grubbing for worms, grunting and sniffing in broad daylight
So it is mid September before I know it and at last the birds are coming back in the garden. The nuthatches are faster than ever, the blue tits more numerous and the chiffchaffs and blackcaps are nibbling the elderberry fruit.
Backdrop colours are changing daily and with some wet weather forecast leaves probably won't be hanging on for too long so I may be ducking in and out of the showers trying for a few more shots before I miss those beautiful autumnal colours.
Frogs, toads and newts have kept me going, along with bat watching in the evening and baby deer in the field beside the house.
Sometimes its not about the photograph but the overall thrill and privilege of seeing truely, wild, wildlife! I had an couple of exciting opportunities with a very black coloured water vole but despite several follow up sessions didn't make another appearance for me.
I also had a couple of morning sessions with a young badger, it's never a good thing to see a youngster out in daylight so again my opportunities were brief but nevertheless what an experience of actually seeing one behaving naturally, grubbing for worms, grunting and sniffing in broad daylight
So it is mid September before I know it and at last the birds are coming back in the garden. The nuthatches are faster than ever, the blue tits more numerous and the chiffchaffs and blackcaps are nibbling the elderberry fruit.
Backdrop colours are changing daily and with some wet weather forecast leaves probably won't be hanging on for too long so I may be ducking in and out of the showers trying for a few more shots before I miss those beautiful autumnal colours.