So we are at the end of April and still in lockdown for the forseeable future.

Over a year ago, I started a project to sort out this website. This entailed re-editing all of the photos on it - over 8,000 - to try to improve them by using the latest Adobe Lightroom and deleting those that were just not up to scratch. The only benefit of the lockdown - this project now completed and this website ending up just shy of 6,000 photos remaining.

Some of you may have noticed some spam adverts popping up on this website for fake watches etc. I deleted them as soon as I noticed them. Recent work by my webmaster means that this website is now secure so the adverts should not appear again. A small disadvantage is that it may take a little longer to fire up but certainly worth it to get rid of the idiot that thought infiltrating a small website like this was worth the effort.

So what have I been doing during the last couple of weeks? Concentrating on my garden that now looks reasonable tidy and setting up a couple of extra bird feeders to try to get some flight shots of the resident common birds - not easy since my garden is not large.

So far, the only takers have been Starlings as I have a couple of nests in the pantiles of my roof - probably the fifth ot sixth year running. The first attempt and I managed some shots of a Starling altercation

and a few days later, probably my best shot of a Starling coming in to land.

I have just found out that this photo has been awarded a Notable in the Birdguides Photo of the Week competition. I have not posted there for over a year so that was a surprise.

Today, a friend and I should have been flying to Belarus for a 12 day photo trip, unfortunately cancelled due to the Coronavirus but we have rebooked for next year. Small consolation though.

So lets see what May brings.

In the mean time, Keep Safe.