Well as lockdown continues with no end in sight, so does wildlife photography from the garden. I haven’t been happy with the settings on my new Nikon D500 but some more tweaking and the flight shots look a lot sharper.

Negative values in terms of temperature but still no snow. At least there was some good light. Another two year ticks for the garden in the form of a flyover cormorant and a first ever for the garden-a goldcrest, albeit for no more than 3 seconds. Takes the list up to 31 for the year.

I had a little wander down to Millenium Orchard near Beverley this morning. Nice to see a few different species nothing unusual but somewhere I’m going to focus on whilst lockdown continues.

Definitely a sense of Spring in the air-blackbirds just started singing, song thrush and a few of the smaller species just giving the hint that winter is on its way out and brighter times are on their way.

Nice to see flowering snowdrops but everything else tighly locked down as winter isnt prepared to loosen its grip just yet.