Ann Miles Blog

Park Hill is a council housing estate constructed between 1957 and 1961. In 1998 the estate was granted Grade II listed building status. Fol...

Spent a very enjoyable few hours looking round Sheffield City Centre. The first image is looking up into the rennovated lantern of Sheffield...

As part of the Travelodge series, tonight there was an amazing colour sunset from Sheffield TL window - almost magenta but I think carmine p...

This morning was very frosty but clear with a very bright blue sky. The images here were taken a short walk from the Travelodge along the ri...

I have been a bit quiet on the blog lately, mainly because I took my camera away to Bath at the beginning of the week but was unable to take...

There is still a lot of standing water in the fields in Toft. This had a thin layer of ice on this morning and Millie had great fun trying ...

Visited the Orchid display at Kew yesterday morning. The main display was in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and had every possible colou...

After a day and night of heavy rain the road into Toft is flooded and closed. However, a number of motorists take no notice - ok if you have...

This is another in my series of blurry pictures taken when staying in Travelodges while away lecturing. This is from the Ilford Gant's H...

I did not take a note of the name of the town with the excellent cafe for tea and it was only when I downloaded the images from my co...

This was for me the best bird of the trip as it was a new one for my list and is such an intense colour. We waited for quite a while in a bl...

In temperatures of minus 17 we tramped our way into the forest to look for the Siberian Jay. The snow was waist high in many places and, wh...

We finished the day in blizzard conditions looking for a Two-barred Crossbill in a town garden and were rewarded with excellent views of the...

Saturday was another snowy and very cold day (minus 15 degrees) but, undeterred, we went off to a forest feeding site to look for Nutcracker...

Today we made an excursion into some local woods to look for the three-toed woodpecker. The snow was much deeper than in normal years so I d...

Today we saw a flock of around 70 waxwings and some of them landed on a berry tree near us. These was taken with ISO 1600 so may need a bit ...

One more from yesterday before setting off for another snowy day. Here the party are trying to get closer to an Hawk Owl spotted a long way ...