| New here - and lost already
Hello, just signed on and trying to find my way around. Suppose I'll eventually make sense of where things are. Never been an Internet 'natural' and tend to easily get confused with this sort of thing. Fine with advanced digital photograph editing and printing, just get lost on these internet sites.
Anyhow, a bit of background. I'm a profesional fisherman working a small boat near Plymouth, mostly potting. Always have a decent camera with me because quite a lot of marine wildlife comes to vist my 'floating birdtable'. Potting is a bit boring (you need to be strong in the arm and weak in the head) so watching passing wildlife helps to keep me sane. Have a few friends who are keen 'birdies' and help me with identification and they pass some of my better photos on to the experts.
So what's around now? A couple of porpoises in the Prawle Point area. They are here every winter, but never yet managed to photograph them. Last year we were adopted by a Black Backed Gull who still sits on the foredeck every day, just a couple of feet from where I am working. He gets the odd bit of fish but just seems to enjoy being there. This week a Sandpiper has appeared on the Fish Quay and is perfectly happy walking around on the concrete slipway and on stored fishing gear. Got some decent photos, maybe show them sometime. A few Northern Divers are here.
The thing that got me to this site is another project. Photographing the wildlife in my garden - particularly those minature monsters. Now I'm trying to identify some creatures from last summer and create something in the way of a personal wildlife diary. The chief problem is with a fly which I think may be a Sunfly or a Dungfly but I can't find any information about them.
If I can work out how to do it I may post a photo.
Hope I haven't rambled on too much. Geoff.  |