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Year List 2012

So the rules for the 2012 Year List are that all birds must be spotted and photographed within the boundary of Bentley Wood. My target for the year is 50 birds (60 may be possible if I get lucky with some unlikely birds flying overhead. But I'm off to a reasonable start with some difficult ones (Hawfinch, Crossbill, Peregrine) already done. See it here.

15/01/12

The Woods

Two photos on the right to kick off two of my aims for 2012. The Woodstack photo is a contender for the January Bentley Wood photo. Not sure it's wintery enough. The Jay photo is one for the Bentley Wood Year List. I will create separate pages shortly.

08/01/12

Sneaky Hawfinches

Hawfinches are a very sneaky bird - difficult to find and even harder to photograph. But I made a start today - found 5 in the woods, and managed to get a so-so photo. See right. This might mean my amibtions for 2012 could be achieved rather early. So my full set of goals are:

1. Take decent photograph of Hawfinch.
2. Take decent photograph of Grass Snake.
3. Do a Bentley Wood Year List.
4. Do a "Year in Bentley Wood" photo diary.
5. Rewrite website to use MySQL.

I will use these as excuse for not doing all the maintenance around the house that needs doing.

07/01/12

CreamyGoodness Photo Review of 2011

On the right is a new image that captures my 2011 on a single page. A pretty good year - quite a strong owl theme.

Plans for 2012... Hawfinches and Grass Snakes.

30/12/11

Twitter Feed Experiment

Now that we are all ipadded up, I might drag myself into the 21st century and play with more web applications. Maybe I'll even start using my facebook account at some point. It's all really just an excuse to get back up to speed with web design using PHP, MySQL etc. My project for this year is to completely rework this site with a MySQL database.....

But the first step is twitter. I'm not really sure I have anything to tweet, but I've added my twitter feed to the bottom right of this webpage. It's a bit of a hack and doesn't really display properly in some browsers. But it's a start, and allows me to tweet content on to my webpage from my ipad while sat on the toilet.

29/12/11

Year List Complete

A trip to Coate Water this morning added Goosander, Shelduck and Teal to the year list which takes me nicely to 100. So I will stop now. (There is some uncertainty as to whether I saw a Stock Dove - Rock Dove - Ferral Pigeon today, so I won't add it in case it was a ferral pigeon).

So on the right is an image containing the photos of the 100 birds I spotted in Wiltshire this year. Doesn't look like very many when laid out in a 10 by 10 grid...

27/12/11

Jay 08/01/12