Spent Father's Day taking Dad around Attenborough. Lots of young birds - Reed Warblers and Whitethroats, Tree Sparrows, Great Tits, Coot, Moorhen, Mute Swan and Mallard all got photographed.

There were also a large number of Banded Demoiselle dragonfly-type creatures around; enough that we saw a sparrow catch (and drop) one, one got caught and eaten by a spider, and we found just the wings of another on the path. Mating Ladybirds and a bunch of Peacock Butterfly caterpillars, and some strange cricket-type critters, were amongst the other insects we saw, not counting all the flies and midges.

Just a walk on a sunny day, and everywhere around were young birds...

RSPB trip to Swithland Reservoir in Leicestershire

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.

The weather wasn't great, so the usual Winter problem of dark, blurry photos reared its head again.

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

After doing some work in Manchester, the boys from the Freedom2 Chichester offices managed a detour via a village called Baslow in Derbyshire. I wonder how that happened? Could they be dropping someone off in Nottingham on the way instead of taking him back to work?

The Garden Café furnished us with coffees and some fine omelettes - although I had scrambled eggs and salmon on toast, Bob had another omelette instead of pudding - and then we had a relaxing walk along the Derwent. Well, it beats working.

Another family trip to Newark to do the trip down the river we didn't get time for the first time we went!

The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum is a sort of building-museum.  Old buildings get dismantled from where they might have been demolished or neglected and rebuilt here.