a keen birder for over 50 years and more recently getting into amateur photography of wildlife mainly birds. my frequently visited reserves and wildlife areas are brandon marsh and draycote water warks, middleton lakes warks/staffs, doxey marshes staffs, sandwell valley, sutton park, and marsh lane area w.mids, attenborough reserve notts, willington gps derbys, summer leys, stortons gps, brampton valley, blueberry farm and harrington airfield northants, farmoor reservoir oxford, tring reservoirs herts, college lake, chiltern hills, wendover woods, floodplain forest reserve (manor farm quarry), stoney stratford reserve, and ouse valley park bucks, stewartby lake and marston vale country park beds, oldmoor and potteric carr s.yorks, blacktoft sands, north cave wetlands and bempton cliffs e.yorks, frampton marsh lincs, parkgate and neston old quay cheshire, the north wirral coast from hoylake to new brighton merseyside, slimbridge wwt gloucs, paxton pits cambs, rutland water, watermead cp, wanlip meadows, and cossington meadows leics.