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It’s a bit noisy this shot but I enjoyed the look this Moor Hen is giving the feather behind it…and being a little short on top myself I could relate.
We’ve had the second batch of ducklings appear over the last week or so (you can see a whole barrel load here). So here’s one of the new batch – there is now an awful load of waterfowl on Doctors Pond now, and the Mallard Ducks, Canadian Geese and Moorhens
This is a new technique to me and the images I have used here don’t really do the technique justice, but as a learning device this has worked fine. The misty landscape in the shapes is today’s picture. The background shot is of Doctors Pond taken some time ago –
We had a good thick fog in Great Dunmow this morning, it was pretty chilly as well, but the grey heron was on Doctors Pond and the fog hid a lot of the parked cars to the rear of the pond, as did the panorama crop I gave the image.
The ducks are pairing up on Doctors Pond for the mating season. This is the only time they come visiting in our garden as they look for somewhere to lay their eggs. We always get losts of visitors, but they never stay…probably just as well as we still haven’t rid
I dashed upstairs when I noticed a rather nice sunset going on (I was working at the time) and shot this image of the Doctors Pond area of Great Dunmow, which was just as well as I’ve had no time to do the image I wanted to do – I
Another catch up post, this time from May 2019 when I took a walk around the North part of Great Dunmow via the church towards Little Easton, back along Bigods Lane and then on to Doctors Pond. As always we had plenty of wildlife on the pond and generally around
The BBC weather forecast suggested mist and -2°C temperatures and a sunrise at 8.06am. I thought that would make a nice shot, maybe not the rising sun, but a bit of mystery from the mist and some frost would make a decent shot. I was to be disappointed. I was
The Moorhens around Doctors Pond have been doing very well this year…lots of Chicks. We didn’t have any Moorhens here until 4 or 5 years ago, we now have at least 2 well established families.
