Paxton Kingfishers etc

I spent an hour at Paxton Pits today after a morning work party and was rewarded with views of at least two Kingfishers - neither of them the same as last weeks which was a female. Lovely light and reflections for the water birds - Coot, Dabchick, Shoveller, GC Grebe, Mallard, Gadwall, Teal, Raven and Heron

Start of the Fungi Season at Paxton

It was good to see that some Fungi are starting to emerge at Paxton Pits though not in usual numbers due to the dry conditions. Yesterday and last night's heavy rain may well stimulate the emergence of fruiting bodies. Here what we discovered on a foray on Thursday with very tentative identifications. 

 

Some More of My Garden Minilife

Before I cut down vegetation in the garden, I run a net through the standing plants and then bang the cut plants on the storage bins to release any small creatures before putting in the green bin. Here are some of the creatures - ID sheet at end. The net gauge is around a mm. 

 

Madingley Hall and Church in Infrared

A set of images from Sunday at Madingley Hall and Church using a Sony RX100M3 converted to infrared. It is a small camera that produces good quality fairly high contrast infrared images (these are converted to monochrome direct from the infrared files without a dedicated profile). 

Madingley Hall Infrared 1

Many years ago, I had my redundant first digital camera, a Canon 1D mkII, converted to infrared and Sunday it had its approximately annual outing. It produces very soft gentle images both in colour and converted to monochrome. Unfortunately I have only one battery that holds charge for a short while so I was also using the other end of the scale in size, weight and type of image, a Sony RX100M3 conversion which will feature in next Blog.