Thanks Alfred ! I actually filmed this yesterday as we are back in Blighty and having a clear up in the garden. The nest site is actually covered over with a sheet of roofing felt where the slow worms and grass snakes normally live. This is the second breed this year from the same nest. I never know what I will find when I pull the sheet away !

Yes I liked that well done, the colours at his time of the year are one of the first things that we notice when we come back to the UK. The swans and ducks always know just when the feeding is about to appear !  I had exactly the same thing in Spain the day before we flew back as we went to a restaurant right next to a huge expance of water, and of cause just about everybody throws the odd bit of food out for the water birds. I would have thought  that there must have been about 200 ducks and coots at least.    Trees are amazing to film when you get the light about right and I admit that I probably take too much footage of them (at least it is digital these days) and wastage doesn't come into it anymore ! I had too smile at the fallen leaves as our garden is absolutely covered in them and I have been clearing them up most of today.

I assumed that was Richard! Curiously, next to the attachment icon I see “Shouty.jpg 762.68 kb, file has never been downloaded.” I thought my viewing of it may not have been counted because of admin privileges, but you’ve clearly viewed it, too.

A park not far from where I live has a large pond which is home to various species of waterfowl, and there are numerous signs asking people to refrain from throwing bread into the water: not only because it’s unsuitable for the birds’ digestive systems, but also because it encourages the growth of algae.

OK gentlemen, you can stop pondering the identity of "shouty", I have to confess it was young Albert Ross. I have no idea why I appear to be shouting, if fact I'm sure that I wasn't, but I could see that Richard's camera was pointing in my direction... well he always messes around when he thinks I am pointing my camera at him.

I am curious Eric, or maybe I am being a bit thick, but how did you manage to view "shouty" without clicking on the download option?

On Excel Forum the download counter is very inaccurate - same issue. I don't take any notice of it any longer.

That would explain why the download counter hasn’t registered any downloads! We’ve all been looking at the ‘Image Preview’ in the browser, so there’s been no need to follow the ‘Download’ route to view it.

*Castell Rhaglan

Well Albert you certainly got it all in !!  It looked like an ideal day lighting wise to get some very good shots with very little shadows well done.  I have never heard of it before but had a look at the history, and it's unfortunate ending.
Castles are very interesting places to visit wherever you are in the world and although we have some in Spain there is nothing like an English one. We have two very close to us in the UK, one in my village of Penshurst and the other in Hever that are great to visit with amazing histories.
In fact there was one on "Channel More 4" (freeview 18) tonight at 9pm of Penshurst Place that was filmed this year with lots of drone footage included, its called "Great Estates From Above"  Towards the end it showed a few shots of the village including the old forge that has been turned into the village shop and post office. From the mid 60s until the 90s my brother and I ran it as a car repair shop. If you can get it on catchup take a look.

Alfred, I have lived in the village from 1951 and I have seen lots of changes over the years (thankfully mostly OK) my wife still loves it so although we have our "Place in the sun" we will still hang on to it while we are able. The TV program is well worth watching and this is a picture of Penshurst Place.

For our final visit we went to a National Trust property in south Gloucestershire called Dyrham Park. Very picturesque with its magnificent trees and beautiful gardens. https://youtu.be/87WOaEYexuk

It certainly would have been Eric, but there was a shuttle bus service that operated both ways, there and back.

Those strimmers seemed to be everywhere as we roamed around. So much so that I had to mute most of the soundtrack and substitute it with a soundtrack of birdsong.

Sounds very exciting with a film crew about to start work at Penshurst. We don't subscribe to Amazon TV so we will not be watching the final outcome unfortunately, but good luck at being an extra,