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Jess and I had a snowy start to the morning today and it was beautiful. When we left the house there was a light covering of snow and just the beginnings of light snow. By the time we reached the Florida Forestry Track we were under quite heavy snowfall which
So, we have some of the same birds here in our garden in Scotland as we did down in Essex, you’ll see a few here. Robins, and a selection of Tits (Blue and Great included here) were in Dunmow as well as here in Scotland, but we also have an
The sheep, bottom right, would like to know what he needs to be worried about with the “red sky in the morning, shepherds warning” rubbish! I haven’t tinkered (unusually) with the colours here, it’s what the camera produced, but I must admit I don’t recall the red colours being quite
Ratty 4 Us 0 We’ve (well, Debbie has) worked really hard to secure the garden against the rats and we think that they no longer live in our garden. All bird food had been removed and then we slowly reintroduced the hanging bird food having protected the poles to prevent
A really busy week got underway in a rather peaceful manner as I took my morning walk around Great Dunmow. I wasn’t expecting any fog but we had this really cool low level fog trapped in the little valley we have here and the cows were looking quite spooky as
Another day, another shot from the garden. The New England Aster came good again with a very busy honey bee collecting the pollen this afternoon. A relatively straight forward shot although you do have to watch out for the sparkling highlights on the bee and its wings. You can see
It poured this afternoon and I was standing at our back door watching it come down and noticed the spider’s web.
Sorry about this, but it’s the New England Aster again, but I think you’ll agree, it is sufficiently different, with the addition of the hoverfly, to those that have gone before. Indeed, I’d say it was more like a much earlier shot of my last flower muse the echinacea. We
This hoverfly was very keen to get as deep into the lavender as possible.
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.
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