Soulandy

Thanks Peter. Conditions help, especially with a phone camera. All good thanks, hope you're good too

Just had a couple of days in Snowdonia where the warm weather was spot on and the reflections were pretty good. Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon across Llynnau Mymbyr x2 Llyn Padarn x2 A Misty Llyn Gwynant x2

A couple of the Highlands Coos near where we are staying

Up in the Scottish Highlands at the moment. Winters coming

Got a small viewing in a field out in Dunham Massey around 8pm before they cam back around 10pm in the back garden and outside our house in a street filled with led lights and near the m60 motorway, amazing with the naked eye

Anytime after about 8pm when it gets very dark, although you could have a long and cold wait. Depends on location, any clouds knocking about, artificial lights from towns, street lights etc. And yes, in most cases cameras will pick it up but with the right conditions, we may get lucky.

Just had a red alert for tonight. It'll probably cloud over later, you watch

Nice colourful Hainan airline taking off on a nice sunny Saturday from Manchester followed by a TUI Dreamliner

Autumn is coming with the arrival of Fred, the house spider, Mary the garden spider and some fellas having a well deserved rest at Dunham Park

2 for the price of 1 round here on Thursday

Yes we have had then breeding in the trees most years along with squirrels. Like a lot of folk, we fed the birds bread and the like and also feeders, but the pigeons, squirrels and the occasional rat has put a stop to that. We still get the resident Robin and a few others passing through but nothing like years ago. A definite change going on

We know about the dwindling of birds, from the small song birds, to the thrushes, blackbirds, swifts, swallow etc but what seems to be on the rise is the number of pigeons flying around. On any one day I must see at least 100, wether and in pairs or a small flock of 15 or so all just flying in all directions. Wether I'm sat at home, in the garden, walking or driving about. Pigeons seem to be everywhere. Have the predators gone and the farmers stopped shooting them

Had a few days in wet and windy Wales earlier this week. Not great photos as such but fun ones. The wife and granddaughter "clicking" on Barmouth beach And a couple of the steam engine's at Bala railway at Llanuwchllyn Station