Toadstools from Sandy Bedfordshire

With all the recent rain and relatively mild temperatures, the fungi are abundant everywhere including RSPB Sandy. We had a very enjoyable day there yesterday with only one shower when we needed to shelter. Here some of the Toadstools; smaller fungi and lichens to follow!

Mobile Phones in Cambridge 1

I spent a short while in Cambridge this morning watching and photographing tourists with their mobiles outside Trinity College in Cambridge photographing the buildings, each other and themselves, and then, occasionally using it as a phone. Shot on Full Spectrum camera which accentuates the autumnal feel to the morning.

Fungi in Hardwick Wood

Hardwick Wood, as expected, has very large numbers of fungi everywhere at the moment after the rain and now the warmer temperatures. The first two have appropriate names - the Tripe Fungus and the Honey Fungus (taken with small pocket camera so not great quality!).

Bradgate Birds etc

Final few from the Bradgate trip - mainly birds that I enjoyed for various reasons - the Jackdaws intent on removing ticks etc from very patient Fallow deer, pictorial views of Peacock and Pheasant, water-level views of Swans etc.

Paxton Pits Afternoon walk

Yesterday morning was too wet to do outside work at Paxton Pits so we were undercover putting nest boxes together. In the afternoon, the rain stopped and clouds cleared to give beautiful light for a walk around the reserve. There are hundreds of Gadwall and Widgeon on the Lakes at the moment together with resident Cormorants, Swans and Gulls which provided plenty of activity to photograph. The flies are still active with three species of hoverfly in one small patch together with a Sarcophagid fly on a toadstool.