Notes on the content of the site:
The images here are mostly of birds, animals, plants etc. although there are a few landscapes too.
They are not a record of rarities 'wot I saw' (indeed most are common). This is why I have deliberately choosen the most humble Chaffinch to be the first species illustrated here. Neither is this meant as my personal 'list' of everything I've seen (oh, there was so much, you don't know, you weren't even there, man! *). * with due respect to Ron Kovic. 
Likewise,the site is obviously not intended to be an ID guide or an exhaustive catalogue of birds. If you desire tightly cropped pictures (often blurry) of a bird's face or, more usually, some rarity 'wot i saw', then sorry, look away. Oh, I just realised there are some faces, so well I lied.
Instead, most of the images are here because I think the pose, milieu or lighting somehow makes each a 'picture'. Those with birds, for example, are not intended as 'pictures of birds' or 'bird pictures', I want them to stand as 'pictures with birds in'. That goes for the others too, whatever the subject. I hold onto this difference, even if I am clearly unable to articulate what I mean! I want to show:
       the 'beauty in nature'
Although given that I treat the common equally with the rarity perhaps I should have called the website 'prettiness in the prosaic'.
Whatever, as I believe the young say. Look, there are some pictures here, have a look if you want. If you don't, then don't!
Please note for the odd words on bird names preceding each species I have drawn from Rev. Charles Swainson's excellent 'The folk lore and provincial names of Britsh Birds' of 1885, Thomas Bewick's 1826 edition of 'A history of British Birds' and Mark Cocker's gorgeous 'Birds Britannica' of 2005. All are excellent and recommended, although the latter is the more colourful !