A fun long Easter weekend.

A fun long Easter weekend which, unusually for the UK, included some sunshine. Having really been bitten by the photography bug over the last 11 months I decided to see if I could make the most of the golden hour by getting "into the mud" before sunrise. This entailed getting up at 4am on Friday and Saturday, whilst technically at 5am on Sunday as the clocks went forward.

Although a killer on the first morning, it is a winning strategy which also provided the best of the holiday sunshine.

Going out on three of the four days I was lucky enough to photograph some hardworking blue tits on Good Friday, some dynamic mallard ducks on Saturday, and a hungry roe deer on Easter Sunday.