I am still waiting to get my clear and colourful Goldcrest shot in Robert’s Park. Perhaps I will have to wait for the Spring and mating season. However I still get to see plenty of wildlife in the park. I have yet to see how much lunch-time walking I do now that the foosball machine…

The chimney at Salt’s Mill is about 220 feet tall. (That figure is relying on me counting the number of 16foot ladders used on the side of the chimney. I am happy for someone to let me know exactly how tall.) Up until the late 1960’s it had some rather fancy stonework around the top.…

Edit: I have now uploaded 102 more photos taken from the top of the chimney. You can see them all within this set on flickr. A few of you will know that I have taken lots of photos of Salt’s Mill both inside and out. I have been down under ground, in the reservoir, up…

I guess we have all seen larger birds being mobbed by groups of smaller ones. I have seen blackbirds mobbing Magpies and Crows, Crows and Curlew mobbing Red Kite. I assumed this was to protect their nest or young from predation. So what was this Crow doing? No big deal with the first shot. A…

I enjoy my lunch-time walks in Robert’s Park but one of my hopes is that I get a clear photo of a Goldcrest. I am still working on it. This is my latest attempt:- When I get close to the trees in the hunt for the Goldcrest I sometimes get spied on by Blackbirds. The…

As you all know it is Movember, the month when people grow a moustache for charity. The Security people at Salt’s Mill (Jayfort) are taking part and many of the Pace employees have signed their sponsorship form. This is Nick trying to hide the fact that nothing seems to grow on his top lip. (The…

A while ago Baildon Parish Council decided to hold a Greeting Card Photo competition and leaflets were printed and I saw them in the various notice-boards, including those at Denso Marston Nature Reserve. I also created entries on the parish council website, the Baildon village website, made an entry in the Baildon Village website calendar…

I gave serious thought to either not going to the Polling Station tonight or ruining the ballot paper. To make sure that the trip was not a complete waste of time I took my camera with me – and my tripod. The Bulls Head in Baildon has recently had a re-fit and new signs have…

Perhaps I am stretching it slightly with the title because this bird, a Manadarin Duck, was on the edge of the Leeds Liverpool Canal this morning which is the wrong side of the river for Robert’s Park. They are very ornate and this photo does not do it justice. The stripes on the sides, like…