At the turning of the year some of my favourite photos/encounters from the last 12 months.
| Kingfisher - Teifi Marshed Nature Reserve, Cardigan - mid-Summer |
| Bluebells Springtime Isle of Wight |
| Blue tit fledgling demanding food from its frazzled parent. |
| Some more of those bluebells |
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| A cat policing the Somerset coal canal |
| A pair of choughs - Bardsey Island |
| Winter crocus |
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| Heron Somerset Coal Canal |
| Highly Attentative Mallard |
| Winter robin |
| A small parliament of rooks in the sun-bleached grass Cardigan - mid-summer. |
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| Blue tit and magmolia blossom - Oxford - Summer |
| Starling fledgling and parent - early summer Bath |
| A murmuration of starlings at rest on phone lines - Cardigan - high summer |
| Pheasant - Bath - summer |
| Sparrowhawk - Bath - summer |
| 'Chatting' wood pigeons - Bath - Summer |
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| Osborne House - Isle of Wight - Mid-summer |
| Mayfly - Somerset Coal Canal - May |
| Dunedas Aquaduct - early winter |
| Young jackdaw begging for food - Bath - early Summer |
| Another Bath-based pheasant |
| Humingbird hawkmoth - Bath - late Summer |
And finally the midwinter miracle of the pied wagtail roost in the middle of Bath city.




