A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

Category: Nature

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Community / Nature / Wales

Ceredigion Moth Group

I attended the formative meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group last night. Unfortunately there hasn’t been an active moth group in the county for quite some time and there hasn’t really been any structured recording of the species that we get. All other counties in England and Wales seem to have active moth groups and...

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Nature

More Garden Birds

In my continuing attempt to photograph all of the species of birds in our garden, here are a couple of the often overlooked Starling and one of some Canada Geese flying overhead.

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Nature / Photography

Redwing

Especially for Trudie. A photo of one of the Redwings we had in the garden today. Is this waht you’ve been seeing? The Snipe returned as well but I didn’t get a decent shot of it. The Redwings weren’t easy either as they are very timid, wouldn’t come too close to the house and scurry...

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Nature / Photography / Wales

Garden Birds

The Snipe that I spotted in the garden yesterday didn’t return, so while I was sat there with the camera set up I decided to take a few photos of the more common birds in the garden, those that are usually overlooked. I think it will be a little photo assignment of mine now to...

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Nature / Photography / Wales

Snipe in the Garden

Spotted a snipe in the garden this morning… Managed a blurry photo of it but I have the camera set up ready for its return. Bet it won’t come back now!

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Nature / Photography

Red Kites

I still haven’t quite got the hang on getting pin sharp photos with my longest lens. At 300mm it isn’t really long enough for bird photography either and hand holding it without image stabilisation isn’t easy, but I’ll get there. What I really need is a day out in the hills or along the estuary...

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Nature / Photography

Snow Crystals

We’ve just got back from a nice little walk up at Nant yr Arian. There’s loads of snowy scenes up there and some cool ice crystals on top of the snow. We had Morgan with us so I didn’t really have time to sit there and play with my camera but there were plenty of...

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Nature

Robin Red Breast

If you look close enough you can see the reflection of me and Morgan in its eye!

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Lifestyle / Nature / Photography

Birds of Borth Bog

Sat in the living room yesterday morning I saw a big flock of Curlew fly over the house and land in the field behind us. I was then determined to get some photos of these and the other coastal and estuarine birds around here. After a quick visit to A&E we went for a walk...

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Family / Lifestyle / Nature / Wales

New Years Day Walk

Like people all over the country, we made the most of the lovely winter weather and went for a walk on New Years Day. Nothing too adventurous as we had Morgan and ‘Granny’ with us so we just had a little stroll around the Ynyshir Nature Reserve. There were lots of Canada Geese on around...