If you ever go to Leighton Moss, remember to take bird food.

We had a female pheasant come begging food, and after hand-feeding it the seed we found in the corners of our pockets it walked with the group for several minutes.  All of the robins came and looked at us accusingly, and when I went to take pictures at the feeders one robin came and sat next to my elbow until I went to get it some food.

Photos from the recent Spurn trip with the Nottingham RSPB local group.  Also a test of the new gallery system I've written, to see if it can handle the massive number of images.

One thing I've noticed is that some images upload quicker than others, leading to them going out of order.  I've tried to "upload" (I'm working on the local network) them in small batches, otherwise you'd have images all over the place (if there wasn't a 20 image per upload limit anyway).

A trip to Norfolk, looking for King Eider at Titchwell, Rough-legged Buzzard, and Lesser Yellowlegs at Stiffkey. We got the latter, but the light was so bad that hardly anything came out from that leg of the trip - which is a shame, as we got some great views of Redshank on the banks of some of the channels.

Titchwell was pretty good for Robins - they came extremely close - and some waders, but the light was variable and so action shots were right out.

These shots are from the Notts RSPB "Tinsel Walk" pre-Christmas trip to Colwick. There's some debate as to whether the Red Crested Pochards are countable - they seem to be in every other county, as they're now a self-sustaining population, but some people in Nottingham don't seem to agree.

Miscellaneous wildlife pics; mostly taken at work!

The Robin Hood Festival in 2004

It's some pictures of robins!

Random bits of nature photography from various places (Chichester and London certainly, some of it inside the office and my house!)

A walk in the sunshine around Colwick Country Park

Miscellaneous shots from around Nottingham, including: around the Council House at Christmas; snow in the garden; and some industrial buildings around the canal down to Meadow Lane.