Spring finally arrived yesterday and we took a walk around Rowney Woods. Amazingly we saw 3 different types of butterfly – they will have been struggling to find any flowers, with the exception of a few straggly primroses there really wasn’t much for them to go at.
I forced myself to only use my 14-24mm lens and I knew that the clouds would look great…and indeed they did!
We visit Rowney Woods regularly and I’ve posted a few pictures from our visits on this blog. I take a photograph of this scene most times I visit, and invariably I take an HDR (high dynamic range) picture. Today I took a standard shot and really liked it, so I hope you like it too.
We had a day off from the rain so visited Rowney Woods for a stroll.
I thought I’d try something different today. Normally when I look at the back of the camera and see a picture I like Iget it home and it’s rubbish. Today I looked at this shot on the back of the camera and didn’t like it. As soon as I had it on the computer I loved it! A nice bit of abstraction for a Sunday afternoon.
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Spotted this fella in Rowney Woods – dragonflies may be bigger than damselflies, and you would have thought they would be easier to photograph – you have to be lucky to get one resting like this – normally they are permanently in motion patrolling their area, damselflies must get tired – they are always resting, waiting for their photo to be taken 😉 The Southern Hawker is one of the largest dragonflies you’ll find in Britain (fractionally smaller than the Emperor Dragonfly)
Heading off into the depths of rowney woods were these two mallards.
This is right at the entrance to Rowney Woods proper before you come to the first Y junction when you have to make a decision.
After a few visits where we haven’t seen any (mammal) wildlife in the woods we saw a large hare and a muntjac deer this week.
The weather slightly improved today – at least it was dry – and we took a walk around Rowney Woods. One thing all the rain we have been having has done is encourage a huge burst of growth in all the plant life. It was only a few weeks ago that we were watching deer roam across these apparently bare fields.
As you approach the main entrance to Rowney Woods from the Carver Barracks side you pass a number of Nissan Huts. I’ve never really seen a picture there but enjoyed the colours and the cloud of this one.
We finally got out and about again after 3 weeks either stuck indoors ill or out visiting family so it was nice to visit Rowney Woods today. Having just commented that we hadn’t seen any fungus in the woods we immediately spotted these.
