[June Photo Competition]

Enjoying all the super other entries folks.

I've just had a smashing holiday week in the Wye Valley area

of Herefordshire and took something like 150 pics !

I'll try 2 from that which seem to be the most suitable, and

some local wildlife, awww, lol.

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

[Net Weather Springwatch]

And 'my' Swifts have just arrived too - bless them :-)

They're screeching round and having a look under the roof tiles,

but the starlings have to finish their nests there first !

As others have said, such a wonderful sound of Summer (to come)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

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[Final Vote - March Photo Competition]

Super finalists - well done all.

Difficult choice but I opted for the wonderful pic by Essan :-)

(I can't see two of them despite the helpful hints, but of

course know them from the original line-up.)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass x

[Net Weather Springwatch]

Just spotted the first of the House Martins to arrive here

between Beverley town and the East coast - Bless :-)

Tom Tits and Great Tits nesting in my boxes and my

Blackbirds have their first chicks out the nest today :-)

My whippet is on cat watch ! lol.

Beverley Lass x

[March Photo Competition]

Lovely to look through so many fab photo's for March :-)

Here's my pick of five ..

Fraser5002 2

Essan 1

Anvil Crawler 3

Cloudburst 2

Lady Pakal 1

Good Luck to you and thanks,

Beverley Lass

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[Net Weather Springwatch]

Hi all :-)

I was mightily surprised to have my friendly resident hen

blackbird .. ('Mrs Halfbird' .. a Sparrowhawk almost had her last

summer and she lost half her plummage ! ) .. coming to me for

scraps and loading them up for her chicks ! I see her mate is doing his

bit too tonight. This seems v. early in the season for oop north

here and after such a cold March. Bless her, hope she's successful ;-)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

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[Final Vote - February Photo Competition]

Very well done to the 4 finalists. All super photo's.

And special congrats to the months' winner and my pick,

Lady Pakal with her brave blackie in the snow :-)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass x

[February Photo Competition]

Hi all,

Fab Feb pics Folks, well done :-)

Here's my choice of five,

Magpie 1

Lady Pakal 1

Cloudburst 1

Snowdrifts 1

Bethpink 1

Cheers

Beverley Lass x

[March Photo Competition]

Hi all :-)

Here's a pic I took on 4.3.06 of my local canal walk.

Cheers,

Beverley Lass x

[Final Vote - January Photo Competition]

Five wonderful finalist pictures. :-)

I put my one vote to Fraser 5002. Superb.

Cheers all,

Beverley Lass x

[Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports 3rd March 2006]

Hi all :-)

After a day of clear blue skies it has now come on to

snow very heavily here c. 7 miles inland from the

E. Yorks coast. Settling too.

Cheers,

Beverley Lass x

[Vote - January Photo Comp]

Thanks to all who entered for January - Lots of super pics :-)

Hard to choose just 5 again, but here's mine in no particular order ..

Tugmistress 1

Frog. 7

Frazer 50021

03jtrickey 4

Weatherfanman 1

Cheers all,

Beverley Lass

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[Final Vote - December Photo Competition]

Many Congrats to MCT ! :-)

This is the one I voted for too.

The whole set of Beamish Woods in the snow were wonderful.

Been a super months' entries all round and I'm chuffed to

bits to be 2nd with my Sunrise Sky ;-)

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

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[Vote - December Photo Competition]

Lovely to look through all these super pics for December :-)

Everso hard to choose just 5 as others have said !

I had a 'short' list of 26 to begin with, lol.

Anyway here's my pick ..

1. Verglas 3

2. M.C.T. 5

3. Jurgen de Boer 1

4. Frogesque 4

5. Char Waugh 8

Many thanks :-)

Beverley Lass

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[Nacreous Clouds]

Thanks Beverley Lass Super photos and a great memory as well as your moment of fame. Sadly I didn't have a camera then (didn't have two hap'nys either but that's a different story ) so thanks for sharing them here.

You will get the occasional aurora visible from Yorkshire so keep a watch in the Space Science and Nature sticky header for any alerts and look for a dark sky location near you with a good view to the north with no light pollution. They can be fickle but they do happen.

NCs on the other hand - well at least I can say I've seen them once!

Thanks Frogesque :-)

Sorry you didn't have the pennies for a camera back then, but you're making

up for it now with many super shots ;-)

I've just had the most wonderful browse over at the thread you recommended

and see you've been lucky enough to both witness and photo some aurora ! :-)

I'll look out for alerts and pray I never miss such an awesome sight.

Wow !!!

Cheers,

Beverley Lass

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[Nacreous Clouds]

16th. February, 1996

It was a Friday and I'd had hard day at work and just wanted to get home. Stepping outside into the freezing cold February air I stopped dead in my tracks as I looked at the slowly waving opalescence of nacreous clouds visible high to the north and east. I then sat in the car-park for an hour or so 'till well after sunset, mesmerised by this beautifull and rare phenomena unable to tear myself away.

They were widely seen over Scotland and the North of England so does anyone else have memories of this or other events.

Edit:

Nacreaous clouds were also seen on 30th November 1999 but somehow I missed them (I would have been in Nothern Ireland at the time)

Hi :-)

Well that's Spooky !

I scanned two pics of Nacreous Clouds yesterday to share and wasn't sure where

to include them, and there's your post on the topic ! lol

What a wonderful sight it was and we enjoyed it for about 20 mins, like opal

in the sky :-)

We had a meteorological moment of fame back in Feb. 1997 when the BBC 'Weather

Show' with Isobel Lang featured our two photo's ;-)

I believe this may be a once in a lifetime sighting .

Now my burning ambition is to see the Northern Lights ! lol

Cheers,

Bev. Lass

[VOTE - November Photo Competition]

Morning all and Happy New Year :-)

Hope I'm just in time to cast a vote for 5 finalists ..

Heck it was hard to choose there were so many top pics !

Anyway in no particular order here's my choice ..

Steve B. 1

Lorcan98 1

Hemlock 1

Frogesque 1

Essan 3

Cheers,

Bev. lass x

[December]

Hi again :-)

Thought I'd add another pic before the close of play for Dec. now the

snow has hit E. Yorks. (entered a Sunrise one previously)

This is one from yesterday, 30.12.05 of the old canal here freezing over.

I must say the other photo entries are just wonderful ! Stunning skies,

wintry scenes and I love the arty close-up pics v.much :-)

In all the months I've lurked on NW, I've only recently found this section

and I'll be a regular now I'm sure :-) lol.

Cheers

B. x

[December]

Welcome to the board Beverley Lass It's a great first post - hope to see more of your pics in the competitions or photography section

Aww, many thanks Frogesque

I'm not at all 'techy' with comps and board contributions but I'll enjoy

having a go here and there now I've braved a start, lol. I do have a few

interesting local weather pics to share I think.

Cheers and Merry Christmas all,

Beverley Lass

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Ps Hoping for some scenic snow pics around here v. soon !

[December]

Hi all, nervous first post and I go and attempt a pic. entry !

Been a lurker for many months and love this site :-)

Hope this works ok, lol. It's Sunrise on the 9.12.05 from

my house near Beverley, E. Yorks.

Cheers,

'Beverley Lass'

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