{"id":14025,"date":"2025-12-28T18:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:15:23","slug":"bradford-urban-wildlife-competition-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/bradford-urban-wildlife-competition-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford Urban Wildlife Competition 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For five years now the Bradford Urban Wildlife Group<\/a>, of which I am a member, have been running an annual photo competition. On Thursday 18 December Bradford Urban Wildlife Group held their Photo Competition Social at Shipley Kirkgate Centre. Having entered 3 photos, and being a member, I went along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the evening we looked through all the entries and had the opportunity to cast our popular vote. This vote did not count towards the results of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Competition Social<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Having looked through the entries I was not expecting anything great for my submissions. We went through the Highly Commended and I got no mention. There was a good mix. There were some excellent photos – sharp, good composition, good lighting. There were also some not quite so good photos – a bit fuzzy, not so good composition, poor light, but the subject meant that it was certainly well worth taking the photo, showing the behaviour of wildlife in an urban environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had to wait until the last – because I won. Yay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the winner was the Willow Warbler on Gorse, taken on a walk along the canal between Shipley and Baildon. It is opposite where Denso Marston Nature Reserve is but across the river and up by the canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason I did not include this photo of the Willow Warbler in my blog post for Easter Weekend 2025<\/a> but did include other photos of the same bird and photos of the Sand Martins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo of the Wren was the header image for my blog post of Denso Marston NR. 13 June 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wren and Sand Martins did not get a mention in the results. There was a very nice entry from someone of a Sand Martin that had just launched into flight from the same wall near Fox Corner, Shipley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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