Photo Blog
I promised my friends on Redgage that I’d keep them up to date on any photographs that I’d taken as they seem to be more appealing than my articles etc.
Having recently taken a lovely walk along the river bank of the Bure and ended up on the "shore" of Salhouse Broad I’d like to share some of the photos Adam and I took. For those of you interested in the walk itself, you may like to have a look at my blog entitled Stop Press! Sun Shines in Spixworth! (http://spixworthsentinel.blogspot.com).
Unfortunately, at the time I’d published the above blog, I hadn't had been able to upload all of photographs I’d taken but towards the end of last week I slowly managed to filter them through onto Picable and today, Sunday, as the weather’s dire with torrential rain and thunderstorms I’m taking a 24 hour holiday and I’ve managed to get a blog up on http://spixworthsentinel.blogspot.comentitled Summer Finally Hits Spixworth and there are links to all of my photos. If you enjoy wildlife then I’m sure you’ll love these! I’ve recently got a new more whizzy camera so I had a bit of a tinker around and I was particularly pleased with my photo entitled Salhouse Broad – Pathway to the Past.
Amongst the photos you'll also find a YouTube link so you can hear the beautiful voice of the Skylark. When I was a child you could guarantee that wherever there was a piece of waste farmland or "set aside" you'd hear one singing on the wing and, if you looked up into a clear blue sky you could normally spot it hovering above you. Unfortunately due to intensive farming and the building of more and more housing estates on our tiny island due to the plague of humans, these poor little birds have been driven almost to extinction but thanks to organisations such as the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and other wildlife and environmental charities, the minority of us in the UK are finally being heard! I still can't believe that humans cull badgers (for bringing TB into cattle herds), foxes for killing pheasants and deer for eating newly planted trees. If it hadn't been for humans, over the last few years bringing TB back into the UK from travelling out to Asia, constructing new houses further into the country to compensate for human over breeding and thereby taking away habitats where foxes could easily catch rabbits and rodents and cutting down forested areas, again for building, then I'm sure these animals and birds would have been quite able to sustain a healthy balance. But no, humans are of course too stupid to see that they're the ones that need culling, not the wildlife!!
OK, I'm off the soap box now! Glad to have got that off my best.
If you do have a chance to look through my blogs you might also find links to some recipes/biographies/articles that I've written recently so hopefully there'll be some here for all of you!
