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Autumn Colours

I’ve been out and about a bit this autumn. Storm Babet took a lot of leaves off the trees early but even today some of the colours are amazing.

A short gallery follows:-

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Moon Watch

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #30

And for Denzil’s challenge this time, the subject is the moon. Over recent years, I’ve made several attempts to photograph the moon and it’s been an interesting exercise.

(from Oct 2016)
Down on the rocks near Troon harbour, I looked for seabirds – anything at all. I could see eider ducks, oystercatchers, cormorants and gulls – plenty. Then looking back into the sunlight, I just spotted a little movement on the flat rocks. A family of four little Ringed Plovers were ‘coorying doon’ out of the wind behind a wee ridge. The strong sun behind them wasn’t going to give me a good shot, so I moved in a great half circle round to get the light directly on to them.

One Small Spider

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #29

We’re not keen on spiders in our house. I don’t think I’ve photographed one before. But when I saw this in the sunlight and when the spider was quite small, I thought why not.

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Wild Animals

The first wild animal I thought of for this post was my daughter’s dog, Max. Now he is definitely a wild animal. However, I guess he doesn’t qualify for this post as he is technically a pet. And I don’t have masses of wild animal photographs but I’ve found a few of interest that I had almost forgotten that I had taken.

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Ladybirds

Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge #27

For Denzil’s challenge, I really wanted to go out to the garden and get some new ladybird photos, but not one ladybug to be seen there. So I’m supplying some archive images here – some were taken indoors before returning the wee charmers to the garden.

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Butterfly Collecting

I’ve just been reading in the BBC History magazine about a wealthy lady of the 17^th century, whose abusive and estranged husband successfully challenged her will following her decease. He claimed that she was not of sound mind when she left all her property to her cousin. Among the evidence he cited of her madness was that she was obsessed with the collection of butterflies and moths.

Nature Photo Challenge – Corvids

This week, Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge is looking for images of the crow family. Wherever I go I seem to come across crows but it’s no surprise to me that I don’t have that many photos of them.

The main reason for this is that it’s hard to get good detailed photographs of black birds unless the sun is really on them, lighting up their feathers.

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Seedheads

Denzil gave us a nature photo challenge to show images of seedheads. I think it’s quite hard to get some good pictorial views, especially now when we’re in the middle of a dull rainy spell.

There are of course many plants which are bearing seed at the moment. So I headed out down to the river to see what I could find.

Bow with Grace

As a cereal goes, barley just looks different. I’ve always been intrigued by the long bristles that extend out of the heads of barley. I remember as a child putting a head of barley into your sleeve at the wrist and finding it magically moving inside up to your armpit.

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