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My mate Mat is the grasshopper king so I was delighted to find this fella in the undergrowth at Dunmow cutting this afternoon He very obligingly popped onto the grass stalk for me to photograph him 😉
I spent a very pleasant hour this evening sitting by Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow watching the ducks, geese, moorhen and house martins flitting around the pond. I’ve lived here for about 12 years and can’t remeber a time when we have had so many Canadian Geese living around the
These bullocks were certainly interested to know what we were doing crossing their field by the River Pant at Little Bardfield
I caught this photograph of a hoverfly feeding on nectar down by the River Pant between Great and Little Bardfield
I spent 20 minutes sitting on a bench on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow one Saturday evening. Just enjoying the warm summer peace that you get here…sometimes. I spotted the ducks flying in a caught this shot of them as they came into land on the pond.
We are lucky enough to have a large area of lavender in our back garden. We didn’t plant it there, it just arrived one year and we have enjoyed it every year since…as have the local hoverflys, amongst others 😉
I popped out for a walk late afternoon/early evening and decided to head down to the Flitch Way in Dunmow. I’ve been on the Flitch Way at Little Dunmow and Little Canfield, but never in Great Dunmow. So off I set, thinking I knew exactly how to get to it…of
I went out today with all 3 extension rings attached to my camera and the 105mm macro lens to go for really small stuff. Whilst this spider isn’t particularly small I was looking to capture the web, more than the actual spider and I was delighted with the results. The
A brief break in the rain this afternoon meant I could pop out and grab this shot f a hoverfly venturing into a foxglove.
Out in the garden today with my macro lens and I caught this spider shinning down his web at a fair rate of knots:
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