What have you seen

Lots of cottongrass on our local moors, looks almost like snow from a distance. Will try to add a a photo, taken with my phone so not very good!

How do I do that?....as you might not know I'm a bit of a dinosaur with regards to computer/photo matters.

Great Spotted Woodpeckers both at Geddes House, Nairn and down here at Banchory today, where we're also back into Cuckoo country again. 

Where will this go? Could be straightforward, depends on the photo editing software you use. I use photoshop and it goes like this.

1 open image in photoshop

2 click on image on the top bar

3 scroll down to image size, and an action box opens

4 your options are to adjust width or height using pixels from the drop down menus.

5 change the numbers in the width option until the size changes to just under 5kb

i find something between 400 and 500 gives me the size we need not the 800 stated in the club guidance. Perhaps it depends on the camera pixel count.

best to do this on a copy so that the original is maintained

as above actions1 and 2 but select duplicate instead of image size

let us know if you use another image editor and I am sure someone will be familiar and be able to help

Sorry Nellie, for 5kb above, please read 500kb

If you're trying to include photos from an android phone or tablet, try the app "photo resized"  - you can download it from Google play. It's then a piece of cake to resize photos, just a couple of clicks, literally. Here's one I prepared earlier!

Should add it's thanks to DSB I discovered this and not sure if it works for iPhone etc. 

I'm on my android phone now. To post a photo and reduce the size to 500 I go to gallery and click on a photo. At the bottom of my phone I have 3 symbols a square,  a circle and and a triangle. I click on the square and I choose the instruction, export. I click on export and I can adjust the size and colour. I reduce the size to 500. Then I go to CT, post a comment and click on add a photo. I choose the photo from documents.

Sorry this is taken a few years ago, but I think an interesting photo to share - two twelve inch long green lizards in full mating colours, fighting in a nature reserve at Aguamolls in Spain.  It was a vicious fight, with 'blood' being drawn before the loser ran off to lick his wounds.

Does anyone know if there are any Pufflings yet at Bempton?  Thanks in anticipation