August Riverfly Session

 The Bourn brook is very low with the dry conditions generally this year so we were not surprised to find the fauna quite restricted for our August survey of the species present compared with July (see Riverfly )

The Next Generation in the Garden

The garden has lots of caterpillars and nymphal plant bugs and minute spiders as the next generations begin. Calophasia lunula, the Toadflax Brocade moth, is a recent immigrant to the UK but is now very widely spread - we have a good population every year, a very attractively patterned caterpillar. Plant bug nymphal stages are difficult to tell apart but generally they are found on the same plants as the adults which helps!! The garden has dozens of small flower spiders with different colours and pattern.

Challis Gardens

Francoise and David kindly dressed up in their Edwardian clothes and joined a group from our camera club at Challis Gardens in Sawston  for an evening shoot. We were lucky with the weather so there was beautiful golden sunlight just breaking through the trees. I decided to use a legacy f1.8 50mm lens which is ideal for an evening shoot except that it is manual focus only which I didn't always get spot on. I also used a full spectrum camera as the light faded  - have included one colour balanced and one b/w from that camera (interesting which clothing absorb, radiate or reflect infrared etc. Thanks David and Francoise for an enjoyable evening.

Saturday Evening Flying at Duxford

The skies cleared completely on Saturday in time for the Flying Evening at Duxford which concluded with these motorised gliders equipped with lights and fireworks.