OK hands up .. these were taken whilst sat inside nice and warm through the window! so not brilliant plus a little poor editing still not bad though

So a little splurge and finally got a lense that means i dont have to be within 3m of the thing i’m trying to catch an image of! Still lots to learn but first handheld efforts dont seem to bad.

A hot day for the UK - my home monitoring system reports 38.91 in the garage …. so i decided to come back in doors for a short whilst and catch up on some work i’ve neglected.

This is from a walk down the local canal sometime ago, its quite heavily stylised but i like it;

from the same walk just much earlier in the day, a chance photo of canoeists paddling through the mist;

Since moving house we have more birds visiting the garden and even a family of squirrels that bound playfully through the trees at the bottom of the garden on the down side there are a few mice and rats which get attracted by the bird food but thats a small price to pay to be able watch all this from the comfort of the house.

After watching them from a distance i decided to set up a little squirrel feed station for when its really icy/cold and it did not take them long at all to figure out there was food available.