It’s a good year for the park’s snowdrops; lots of flowers in the woods.
Photographs by DKG and Suzanne Humphries
Snowdrops!
Lichens
These are densely packed crustose lichens, on the bark of a young birch tree in Sheepfield Copse. Groups of lichen species are often consistently associated together, forming recognisable communities. It is probable this is a community, containing several species of Arthonia, that grows on smooth barked trees.
The whole thing
“It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.” David Attenborough
Our park doesn’t have snow leopards or white rhinos. Our rarities are small and fragile: water voles, pondweeds, dragonflies zipping past so suddenly they make you jump, a visiting marsh tit, a linnet singing in the trees, little bottom-feeding fish. Then there are the hundreds of flowering plants, thousands of invertebrates and probably tens of thousands of species of fungi hidden away where we can’t see them.
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Beautiful autumn colours by DKG:
Another gallery here:
HDR Photography
A Brief Description by DKG
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And….. Pond at sunrise, by Chris Seymour. Thanks Chris; that’s gorgeous.
Pond at sunset by Elena Aschiopoaiei. Thank you, Elena, for such an atmospheric picture.
Pictures, by DKG, of Tuesday’s misty morning. Click any picture to open the gallery.
…those lovely foggy mornings.
Spider webs in the dew
Spider webs in blackthorn.
The Lone Oak through the mist.
Across a misty Lambrok Meadow
Spider webs in creeping thistle
Across the pond towards the sun…
Sunrise over a misty pond
Another gallery by DKG:Autumn Leaves
The summer is over, the nights are drawing in and DKG has sent pictures of sycamore seeds among red leaves.
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The Lone Oak
DKG photographs the Lone Oak in all weathers, lights and seasons, and from all directions.
Bird spotting
Words and pictures by DKG:
“A few photos of a Heron, Bullfinch and a Robin.”
Heron
Heron
Bullfinch
Bullfinch
Bullfinch
Robin
‘Path’ by Neave Duggan (aged 12)
Path by Neave Duggan
Path by Neave Duggan
Path by Neave Duggan
Midsummer sunrise
Sunrise on the summer solstice by DKG.
“A few photos of the sunrise on June 21st. The sky was producing some lovely cloud textures, a lovely dawn chorus as usual….”
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