My Opera2009 highlights
Sunday, January 3, 2010 2:21:22 PM
I thought I'd have a quick look back at the highlights of last year, which had quite a few! My visit in January to a very frosty Bushy Park was quite fruitful, wth some nice 'coots on ice' photos
Later in the month I had a chance close encounter with a kingfisher
And the snow in February created some great photo opportunities, not least this tame redwing
The start of the year also included the two days of my mammals course at wildwood, which included seeing my first ever dormouse
In early march there was the frog spawning
And the heron eating frogs in Richmond Park
And finally finding my local adders
There was the toads breeding in Bedfords Lake
My first ever pill millipede
A trip to Wicken Fen gave m my first views of quite a few orchids and other flowers, as well as my fist hen harrier
June brought some stag beetles to my garden
Which was when I was playing with my first DSLR
Its fist real outing ended with me finding this cygnet and swan
A few days after I was off to Strumpshaw Fen to see the norfolk hawkers and swallowtail butterflies
Towards the end of June was my trip to Pembrokeshire and Skomer
July was relatively quiet except for the scarce damselfly at Wat Tyler
In August a trip to Thursley resulted in lots of dragon and damselflies, green tiger beetle, raft spiders and this hornet robberfly
A birthday trip to Rainham resulted in my best ever little grebe photos
September brought the wheatears to two tree island
And my first flycatcher
Along with a trip to newforest with crossbills and a golden ringed dragonfly
The last of 2009's dragonflies gathered in a sun trap one day at Wat Tyler CP
In October I headed to Richmond Park for the deer rut
and I got some nice photos of the skylarks at reculver
November at Hanningfield I saw a goldcrest close up
A couple of trips to Elmley Marshes gave me my best curlew photos
I got my best nuthatch at Bedfords Park
The seals at Donna Nook were a major highlight
A trip to Reculver yeilded some wader photos as well as a tame kestrel
In December a trip to Farlington Marshes resulted in some nice photos of the Brent Geese
And the recent snow created more photo ops
And just after xmas a trip to Elmley resulted in a photo of a marsh harrier
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