sparsity of waterbird life at watermead - 12 April 2012

I don't know why but the lakes seem empty at the moment, unless they're all hiding around their nests. The smaller birds are still active though. A blue tit was the first to visit the feeding post at the car park, but he was so fast I couldn't get a focus on him.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm L lens
1/80 @ 6.3, iso 400, 400mm 

This Dunnock was the next visitor, he nipped in before too many birds assembled and didn't come back once he'd had his fill

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm L lens
1/80 @ 6.3, iso 400, 400mm

A magpie flew in skimmed the post with his feet, scattering the feed,  and flew away again. I don't know why he did that, it looked like a clear case of bullying to me. But the Robin made the best of it and collected the spilled mealworm from the ground. I like the way the feathers, at the ends of the wings, stack like lolly sticks on this pic.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm L lens
1/100 @ 6.3, iso 400, 400mm

The Chaffinch was next and for once he stood up to the Robin and got a good feed.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm L lens
1/125 @ 6.3, iso 400, 400mm 

I don't know if it was the same Blue tit as came first, but this one dropped something and stopped looking for it, long enough for a picture.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm L lens
1/100 @ 6.3, iso 400, 400mm

The Great Tit is another fast food addict who slowed down and even sat on the fence for me to get his picture.

The Remarkable Couple

I just released my new novel on Amazon, it's my sixth book and a sister book to 'The Unremarkable Couple" (see the side bar) both are based around the "Sunnyview Naturist Club" in "Lurking in the Wolds" and contain nudity and love making.

Doctor Teresa Barton, a General Practitioner and stunningly beautiful naturist, is a virgin, determined to save herself for the right man. She has been a secret naturist since the age of fourteen and a practising social naturist since she joined the University Sun Club. Her strict, fanatically religious, parents disapprove.

Sharing a flat in Lurking in the Wolds with Jo, an old school friend, she soon finds she has made a mistake. Jo is a good looking girl, who's not as beautiful as Teresa and doesn't share her morals. To Jo, nudity equals sex, there can be no other reason to get naked. She cannot understand how Teresa can show her naked body to everyone on a nude beach or in a naturist club and not be interested in having sex with them.

Things come to a head when Jo brings two men home. She tries to get one of them into Teresa's bed and nearly succeeds. But when that fails she takes both into her own bed for a threesome. Teresa, unhappy about her flatmate's, sometimes illegal, attempts to get her bedded, tells Jo to move out.

This decision changes their lives, and Teresa, close to a breakdown, gets into all kinds of unexpected adventures. Will she hold onto her virginity until she finds the man for her?