Riponian Rally

Riponian Rally. Six stages. Three run twice in the Yorkshire forests Although one stage cancelled due to lost time in the morning.
Round of the...
 

a country road

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A winters day RAF Lakenheath

Some from a day at RAF Lakenheath home of the USAF 48th Fighter Wing. Having four squadrons flying F-15E Strike Eagle 492nd Fighter Sqn "The Madhatters"...
 

nuthatch in flight.

don't normally take pix on bird feeders, but wanted to try and get inflight pix of a nuthatch .They are really fast and never stay still.Thank goodness...
 

Unusual visitor

A female grey partridge in our Nottingham garden today. It preferred to freeze than fly. Presumably a game bird that's gone astray?
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A bit spooky

My better half attended the Cheltenham Everyman theatre last night to see a production called `Uncanny`. I was not up for seeing it myself but took a...
 

Birds Birds Birds...(Kidwelly)


Miss Sparrow



Peewit



Coy Jenny Wren



Chiffchaff

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Snowman Rally Scrutineering

I was marshalling at the rally on Saturday so no photos from the stages, however I went along to the scrutineering on Friday night to get a close up on...
 

Black Redstart

a First for me ...
 

the acid test

out for a hour or so this morning in deep woods me with the Nikon my lad using the om1 side by side , we both got this robin at the same time and I have...
 

Saturday's Dishforth Targa Rally

I went marshalling, so wasn't able to spend the day photographing all the cars, but best of the day was this one... No showboating involved at all! ...
 

Day out with EM1 mk 1

Still a great camera! Day out yesterday in my home city of Gloucester, EM1 mk 1 with the PL12-60.






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Some Butterflies at London Zoo

We went to London Zoo last week and one of the more interesting areas was the Butterfly Paradise with some exotic butterflies.

It was cold...
 

Turtles and snakes

We went back to the wildlife drive and we couldn't believe how many gators were out on the banks today! We easily saw over 100 gators of all sizes. I...
 

There be snow on them there 'ills



And a bit of sunshine too...

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