About Me

I have been living in Four Marks, Hampshire for 26 years. I am married to Helen, and have two daughters long departed the nest and two grandchildren a grandson and daughter. This blog is all about the birding trips I take around the county of Hampshire, and our travels further afield, both here in the United Kingdom, and around the world. 

Many of my local birding trips I take with my good friend Ian, and we combine our time birding with sharing our love of music and anything that makes us laugh. The trips further away are of course with my wife, my closest companion and critic! 

From 2012 I have written a blog dedicated to the wildlife around my village of Four Marks.  The amount of posts to this blog have reduced through the last few years, mostly observing and documenting the events of my garden and the semi tame Blackbirds and Robins we have.  The blog though does provide a good record for five years of the natural history, and describes the many changes to the area around the village that have happened in such a short time.
A Year Around Four Marks

Equipment

Camera Body:

Canon R7
Canon EOS 7D mark ii

CanoN EOS M100 Mirrorless Camera

Lenses:

Canon EF 70-200 mm EF L USM Telephoto Lens 

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Telephoto Lens

Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-5.6L IS Telephoto Lens

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Telephoto Lens

Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM

Canon EF-M 15-45 mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens

Canon EF-M 55-200 mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM Lens

Canon Extender EF ii 1.4x

In both these blogs I want to share the images we see but all images on the blogs are copyrighted and they are my property. All rights are reserved unless otherwise granted to you. Your rights to use the Image are subject to this agreement and if you wish to share these photographs or use them all I ask is that you give me the credit for them, thank you.