Showing posts with label suffolk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suffolk. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Wide-Angle Fungi at Brandon

Brandon still has numerous fungi, which now have very colourful autumn leaves as a backdrop. I only had a 'landscape' wide-angle lens with me but am pleased with the results.

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Brandon Country Park Afternoon

Still cold but with cloudless skies, we explored other areas of Brandon - first I did my annual visit to a colony of slime moulds on a rotten conifer trunk (Trichia decipiens) and then to the area of conifers and silver birch where there were abundant Fly Agarics. Various techniques tried from wide-angle single shots to 20-image stacks, mostly with Fuji X100V.

 

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Bearded Tits at RSPB Lakenheath

A beautiful sunny day for a walk at Lakenheath reserve. Definite lack of birds - these were the only species that we saw but such a delight to watch this group of Bearded Tits  feeding in the reeds. I couldn't stay long but others in our CCC group got some great shots when one perched on a single tall reed!

Saturday, September 24, 2022

It's Behind You - Spiders at Lakenheath

Although not as plentiful as previous autumns, there were plenty of different spiders and harvestmen at Lakenheath on Wednesday - this wren was hunting for food in the undergrowth but somehow missed this one or perhaps it is not a palatable food item. Despite searching widely, I haven't located any literature on which species of spiders are or are not eaten by birds. Possible species ID: Harvestman Leiobunum rotundum, Araneus marmoreus, Araneus quadratus, Pisaurus mirabilis. (For next year's ID help - Ruddy Darter (black legs), Common Darter (striped legs))

Friday, September 23, 2022

Lakenheath Flies and Bees etc

 A few more images from Lakenheath on Wednesday. The flies were the most numerous insects including two new species for me Ceroxys urticae (Picture-winged Fly) and Sargus bipunctatus (Twin-spot Centurion), plus Coremacera marginata a snail-killing fly, Scathophaga stercoraria. Wasps were common as most places with Carder bees active in the few flowers that were out.
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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Lackford wide-angle Insects

The only insects that we photographed other than dragonflies at Lackford Lakes were very small insects in a patch of fleabane. No doubt if we had stopped and closely studied other areas, there would have been more small insects and spiders. These are taken with 23mm fixed lens on Fuji X100V with Raynox closeup lens - a lighting system would have been useful as the aperture used was too wide to get adequate depth of field so close.

Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so