New Year, new project

A glorious day to start my observations for 2012. Cool, yes, fresh, yes - but a beautiful clear blue sky and a bright sun. The sun lit a pair of male bullfinches magnificently at the edge of School Common.

I've started a new project for the year, to take record photos from 16 different vantage points around the common. The aim is to take pictures from exactly the same positions once a month, and I started today. We hope that this will provide a good record of how the common looks at each month of year, and the extent to which invasive species such as Alder are affecting the site. Here's an example: