Sandy November Fungi 1

Great photography day yesterday with RPS Nature Group and Paxton Photo group at RSPB Sandy photographing fungi and slime moulds. In the morning, I mainly concentrated on slime moulds (images to follow when time to process the focus stacks!!), but an afternoon walk along the Winter trail revealed a lot of interesting fungi some of which responded well to UV illumination. The wonderful autumn colours added to the enjoyment despite slightly damp conditions later in the day. These images are with my FujiX100V (plus Raynox 250 for closeups). 

Paxton Pits 9th November

Jacqui and I had a general wildlife photography walk around Paxton Pits on Monday in misty cold conditions but were rewarded with great views of an Otter close to us catching a fish. We were alerted to its presence by an Egret on a branch staring intently into the sedges. Although our eyes had no problem separating Otter from vegetation, my camera was not so clever so you need a bit of imagination but this is the closest that I have watched otters at Paxton other than on the trail cameras. Very exciting!! The rest of our time was the other end of the nature photography spectrum with small lichens and fungi that kept very still and could be moved to help our backs if needed!!

Soft Light at the Pits

Images taken on Saturday in misty but bright conditions at Paxton Pits showing beautiful muted autumn colours across Heronry Lake and a variety of water birds including a Scaup that was in with the Tufted Ducks, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebes, Shovellers, Widgeon and Egret.

 

Paxton Lichens 2

A second walk at Paxton Pits concentrating on the Lichens and also Autumn Mist and Colours. IDs on last image.

Duxford Concord Nose Droop

 As part of their evening's entertainment on November 5th, Phil was in the captain's seat to demonstrate the lowering of Concorde's nose etc in front of a very big crowd. All went well with the heat shield, nose lowering etc as the plane made its imaginary c. 2 hour journey from London to New York.