Category: Paul’s Blog

I haven’t been down to the river for a while and I also missed the walk and talk about the Hedgerow in Spring on Saturday morning (13th April). The next one is 4:00am for the Dawn Chorus. ANyway, on Saturday afternoon 6th April I went down to the river. On the way down the new…

I have just had 4 days (sort of) in Cologne. Travelling the morning of Monday 18 March and coming back the afternoon of 21 March. The trip was for an Oracle Agile Summit in the Media Park of Cologne. The hotel was also in the Media Park. As usual you can click on any of…

I sometimes wonder if my mind is just empty because today I sat outside for about an hour hardly moving. I had my camera on a mono pod nicely angled so that it was just in front of my eye. I saw a male and female Bullfinch but they did not come close to me.…

I often see Crows, Pigeons and Gulls on top of lamp posts as I walk to work but the other day I saw a Rook on top of one of the tall lamp posts with a whole end slice from a loaf of bread. I didn’t hang around to swap lenses because it was snowing…

For all you thousands of people out there that want to know what I add to my blog I have now added a Subscribe option. It should be down there on the right when you are on the main page. So if you don’t already follow me on Twitter or Facebook you can be emailed…

We have had a fair amount of snow over the last few days and I have made sure that the bird feeders have had plenty of Sunflower hearts in them and the fat ball hanger always had something for the birds to go at. We still have dozens of Siskins and a few Bramblings to…

Plans to change the 3 Baildon Reservoirs into a local amenity are unlikely to come to pass. An engineer’s report has said that the lower two reservoirs must be kept empty. It is likely that the larger reservoir will be emptied once a way is found to safely divert the water. You can read more…

Strawberry Gardens in Baildon, just on the edge of the Moors, often has a couple of donkeys in the field next to the path and the wall is low enough for them to get their little heads over. Impressive nostrils or what? And this one is shot between the eyes.