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Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Thursday 11th April 2019

Notice the change of heading? It is now Wales and not North Wales. The reason is that we drove south to the Newport area as we had arranged a couple of sessions in hides run by Ian Howells.

The first was an evening/night session in a hide specially set up to photograph Tawny Owl by flashlight - a totally new experience for me. We met Ian at our hotel and drove to the site - rather out-of-the-way - where there were two hides facing different directions, one for the Owls and the other for farmland birds, Buzzard and Sparrowhawk.

Ian set up the flash system which was connected to our own cameras and put out the bait. He explained to us how to set up our cameras and then we just waited for nightfall and the visiting Tawny Owl

We left around 1.00am after just three visits but enough to get some decent shots.

Ian had expected more visits but he thought that the female was sitting on eggs and not coming in to feed. Still, quite an experience.