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Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

A Pair of swans all loved up

Grey Seals in the UK are found mainly around exposed rocky northern and western coasts. They also occur in the south west and off the east coast around the Farne Islands off Northumberland and Donna Nook in Lincolnshire. Between the tides they haul themselves out on to rocks, usually on uninhabited offshore...

Grey Seals in the UK are found mainly around exposed rocky northern and western coasts. They also occur in the south west and off the east coast around the Farne Islands off Northumberland and Donna Nook in Lincolnshire. Between the tides they haul themselves out on to rocks, usually on uninhabited offshore...

Grey Seals in the UK are found mainly around exposed rocky northern and western coasts. They also occur in the south west and off the east coast around the Farne Islands off Northumberland and Donna Nook in Lincolnshire. Between the tides they haul themselves out on to rocks, usually on uninhabited offshore...

The Avocet is a distinctively-patterned black and white wader with a long up-curved beak. It is the emblem of the RSPB and symbolises the bird protection movement in the UK more than any other species. Its return in the 1940s and subsequent increase in numbers represents one of the most successful conservation...

A Goldfinch and a House Sparrow squabble over the sunflower hearts in our back garden

Taken at my local country park.

The Bank Vole has reddish-brown fur above, creamy-grey fur below, a rounded blunt snout, less prominent eyes than mice and ears completely covered with fur. It is the smallest of the UK’s vole species. The Bank Vole is very widespread and among the most common of UK mammals. It can be found throughout...

I came across these ladybirds basking in the sunshine on a bush in my neighbours garden

I came across these ladybirds basking in the sunshine on a bush in my neighbours garden

Image captured at my local pond

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

Taken in my garden in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire on 24 March - the first real sign of Spring 2012

If you want to see a Bittern close-up, take a flask and a pair of binoculars to Blashford Lakes in the New Forest and wait...

The male Blackbird lives up to the name and the black plumage and bright orange/yellow beak and eye-ring make them one of the most striking garden birds. Females are brown often with spots and streaks on their breasts. The Blackbird is one of the commonest UK birds and it can be found all year round...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

The Black-headed Gull is not really a black-headed bird at all. It has a more chocolate-brown head and in fact for much of the year it has a white head. It is most definitely not a "seagull" and is found at estuaries, coastal marshes, freshwater marshes, gravel pits, lakes and reservoirs, moorland...

This photo was taken in my back garden

Goldfinch puts the brakes on to land

Sky over my house one February morning