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A female mallard takes off from the Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow and heads off into the wide blue yonder… I probably spend more time hanging around Doctors Pond than is healthy!
Taken in the back garden, this Starling fledgling was not impressed to see mother leaving! I’ve been getting a lot of shots of the garden birds recenty having invested in a tele-converter…which basically means I can get twice as close to the birds with my camera even though I’m stiil
We live not to far away from the Imperial War Museum Duxford and I was lucky enough to be there when they were practising for a display the next day so there were a number of World War 2 planes being put through their paces. This plane probably didn’t fly
Another visit to Audley End House for their Victorian Day. They had a lady showing her birds of prey and this was one of them – a lovely Kestral.
The sun was just breaking through as we approached Rowney Woods giving us those great sun beams…big sky as well!
We were talked into joing English Heritage when we were last in Nothumberland, and I have to say, we worried whether we would get our monies worth. Well, I’ve been to Audley End about 4 times this year so far and I always find something new to look at. It
Finally, wild spring flowers have started appearing all over the place. These are Anemone nemorosa, or, if you prefer, wood anemone in West Wood, just outside Thaxted in Essex.
Spring finally arrived yesterday and we took a walk around Rowney Woods. Amazingly we saw 3 different types of butterfly – they will have been struggling to find any flowers, with the exception of a few straggly primroses there really wasn’t much for them to go at. I forced myself
This was my first go at a “Little Planet”. Just to complicate matters I did an HDR version of it, so 55 shots were taken to make this image…probably a little excessive! It was good fun to make and I do like the effect…and, of course, it’s Doctors Pond, at
I’ve been keen to shoot the stars and I had some limited success with this but the moon coming up over the lake at Hatfield Forest was quite beautiful. It’s amazingly quiet in the forest at this time of night…except for the roar of the jet engines and smell of
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