January 2019, not an image, not a shutter press, a photographic non-event. Lack of opportunity or inspiration or whatever but not a single picture recorded by my cameras. Of course, there is always the useless images I may have taken with the iPhone but not worthy of saving. So, I was always going to go and do something this weekend with the promise of decent light and weather, but what? Waxwings! It has been a good few years since I have photographed Waxwings, and, although it has not been a bumper winter for them in the UK there have been…
Garden Safari
We’ve lived in our house for 25 years and I’ve always kept an eye on what wildlife we have had in the garden during that time. Over the years I’ve had a lot of different birds either fly over or land in the garden. A couple of years after we moved in during cold winter I watched 5 species of thrush feeding at the same time on my windfall apples. Five years ago on Christmas Day I finally connected with Waxwing, although this was observed ‘from’ the garden. I remember one Spring we had a pair of amorous & noisy…

