The Wildlife Wheel is ageing beautifully. The weathered and cracked wood is supporting a whole landscape of lichens that are colouring in the carvings. Here is a gallery of its creatures:
A walk around the park at sunrise with DKG
Click here to open the gallery2016’s blue tit nest
While our female blue tit incubates her eggs and the male visits to feed her, here is a look back to 2016 when DKG staked out another nest in a different oak tree.
All the pictures are by DKG
Below is the full story of this year’s nest:
Photographs of sunset in the park from C.J. Seymour
More pictures of the park in bloom; these are from C.J.Seymour.
Thanks Chris.
Daffs at Dawn by DKG
Sunlight through the trees
The Winter Flu caught DKG this year and put him out of commission for a while; we missed him and the website missed his pictures. He’s back with a gallery of pictures all about his obsessions with the rising sun and trees. There is a squirrel keeping a eye on him, though.
Click to go to the gallerySnowdrops!
It’s a good year for the park’s snowdrops; lots of flowers in the woods.
Photographs by DKG and Suzanne Humphries
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.
