Mallards - a family of a mother and some of her ducklings

You will find these at http://www.rodneywillett.co.uk/page39.html

Normally I would not put up a sequence like this but would select one or, possibly, two which I considered to be the ones worth looking at. Although this is only about half the photographs that I took of this young family on Oare Water (made famous by Lorna Doone), I think it giives some idea of what was happening. Anyway, I hope you enjoy what you see.

Regarding one robin

This is not really a post at all in the usual sense. I took some video of a robin in the garden - see below - and wanted an expert opinion as to why it was behaving as it was and so on. Now my brother-in-law is just such an expert so I sent him an email with this clip as an attachment - only to discover that he was unable to open it.

So, yes you've guessed, I decided to attach it to a post here and just send him the link. Anyone else who has an opinion is more than welcome to pop their comments below.

Updates

The idea of a photo blog was probably not that clever. What do you do with a collection of about six thousand images garnered over fifty years and most of which are set in the west country?

Since there is no sensible answer to that question,. I am gradually putting some of them up on my website www.rodneywillett.co.uk where anyone sufficiently interested can browse. Quite a few pages still carry the message "under construction" but I hope that these will be fewer as time goes on. Meanwhile, I will note additions here.

Meanwhile I have been playing with video. On the stocks at the moment are:

• a short film about working and playing on Dartmoor with interviews with a thatcher, a National Park Ranger, a dry-stone waller on the work side with canoeists, skateboarders and tor climbers playing. 
• an investigation into the power that was taken from rivers and into how we could still use that power today
• a look at waterfalls - there are so many from tiny trickles dropping over a single stone to some quite terrifying cascades in some of our cleaves
• Avian Antics which is just a bit of fun with a few of our local birds as the stars.

Here is just one of the snippets from the last to whet your appetites - or bore you silly, one or the other.