earlybirder: January 2016

I do not claim to take amazing photographs and I use a relatively modest 'Bridge' camera, but I do enjoy recording the world around me as I see it. There is beauty in every view and sometimes we are lucky enough to find it. These are my favourite shots from the last year.....

Look at the sky, listen to the birds and smell the flowers....

Why the 'Earlybirder'? As a boy I slept in a room overlooking gardens and an old orchard. I preferred to sleep with the curtains open and as it became light in the morning I would get up and, armed with a heavy old pair of binoculars and an even heavier and older bicycle, head out to explore the Welsh Harp, Ruislip Lido or Cassiobury Park.

I like the exclusivity of early mornings. It's the best part of the day...the air is often still and fresh and the birdsong is not masked by the hum of lawnmowers or background hiss of traffic. The sun of a new day sheds a uniquely bright light which gives everything, from flowers to feathers, a lustre which fades in the less-forgiving light later in the day. The world belongs to you and you feel so alive. While others sleep the rest of the world awakes. To witness a sunrise, focus on the incredible richness of a nightingale's song or watch a newly-hatched mandarin chick dry in the warmth of a pool of morning sun is to experience life at its purest. Bed can wait...

earlybirder

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Black Wonderful Life HD Widescreen 16:9

Saturday 16 January 2016

Bowie - Starman - Aylesbury 1972 Updated

Morcheeba - Rome wasn't built in a day (videoclip)

Sunday 10 January 2016

Orchid Mantis - Super PINK!

Saturday 9 January 2016

Traffic camera captures glorious image of snowy owl in flight above a mo...

Favourite photographs of 2015.......

Saturday 2 January 2016

Soggy Saturday in Oxford......

Link to WWT - Welney