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Strutting His Stuff
Anser anser

231/365v3 – Strutting His Stuff

Occasionally we get the odd Greylag Goose paying a visit to Doctors Pond and this chap was a fine specimen, strutting his stuff amongst the squabbling ducks and Canada Geese. Sad to report that we are down to 4 ducklings now from the original 7.

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In The Shade
230-365v3 - In The Shade

230/365v3 – In The Shade

On my way back from Great Yarmouth this evening I stopped off very briefly at Covehithe in Suffolk to have a look at the trees that have been sucked into the sea by erosion…as you will see, in the part of the coast I was on there really wasn’t much

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Bluebirds in Mill Wood
Bluebells

229/365v3 – Bluebells in Mill Wood

We took a quick trip out to Perry Green this afternoon to see how the Bluebells were doing. Whilst it’s still a little early in the season, I can conform they are doing well but there are still more to appear!

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Forget me not in West Wood
close up

228/365v3 – Spring in West Wood

Despite dire warnings of cold weather and rain today, we ventured out in the morning and visited, for the first time in a long while, West Wood, just outside Thaxted. It was a lovely, bright mild morning…thanks weather forecasters! Lots of new growth was everywhere including the common spotted orchids that

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Easter Decorations on Doctors Pond
Doctors Pond

227/365v3 – Easter Decorations on Doctors Pond.

A very rude woman sat in a convertible car started shouting at me as I stopped to take this photograph…she was, apparently, watching a chap drag in a fish from the pond…something that happens about 40 times a day during the fishing season, What the silly woman didn’t realise was

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abandoned

226/365v3 – Mill Race, Tilty

This stream/river used to feed the Tilty Mill which, whilst derelict, can still be found a little way down stream. The water is diverted away from the mill now. Lots more after the break. 

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Just a Bunch of Boxes
box

225/365v3 Just a Bunch of Boxes

One of those days where I haven’t got the camera out…until the last minute…these boxes caught my eye in the wife’s work room – her “daylight” bulb works well!

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Mark Seton

Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm currently the Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club (and am a past Chairman) and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions.