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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
Always a favourite to shoot – this is shot with my fish eye lens as an HDR of 3 shots combined.
There’s always plenty of fishermen on Doctors Pond and who can blame them – it’s quite lovely especially at Sunset.
You’ve heard of the ugly duckling, well the moorhen chick definitely competes well on these stakes!
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.
A rather pretty sunset behind Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow that drew me out this evening
Occasionally we get the odd Greylag Goose paying a visit to Doctors Pond and this chap was a fine specimen, strutting his stuff amongst the squabbling ducks and Canada Geese. Sad to report that we are down to 4 ducklings now from the original 7.
A very rude woman sat in a convertible car started shouting at me as I stopped to take this photograph…she was, apparently, watching a chap drag in a fish from the pond…something that happens about 40 times a day during the fishing season, What the silly woman didn’t realise was
More cuteness from around Doctor’s Pond this morning…plenty more pictures after the break…
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