Category Archives: Flora/Fauna

Jul 06 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Pigeon’s-eye view

Tuesday 6th July 2021, 3.05pm (day 3,603)

The Hebden pigeon population is well trained, and anyone who simply sits on a park bench for a few moments of contemplation (as I did this afternoon around 3pm) will soon find themselves the object of curious, food-related enquiries from the local birdlife. Feeling in need of a new approach, I tried putting my camera down amongst them at ground level and (not wishing to join everyone down there myself) firing off the shutter at random a few times. This was the best of the shots that resulted. But it may also be a sign that I need to get out of Hebden a bit more.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Jul 06 2021
1 Comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Propped plums

Monday 5th July 2021, 9.35am (day 3,602)

The plum tree is bearing a heavy load this year, and needed help. Banyan trees have worked out how to do this kind of thing for themselves, but not yet this species. The working week started with a trip to the builders’ merchants in order to acquire some long, stout bits of wood to prop up the most creaking branches.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Jul 03 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Pollen

Friday 2nd July 2021, 3.45pm (day 3,599)

Pollen, 2/7/21

If you’ve been sneezing a lot lately, you’re assuredly not the only one. The noses know we are at peak pollen season.

Tagged , , , , , ,
Jun 28 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Day of rest

Sunday 27th June 2021, 3.55pm (day 3,594)

Dozing dog, 27/6/21

Could not decide between two photos which both epitomised this uneventful and almost totally energy-free day. But the other one was some knitting project of C’s (we age, we age….) that would have taken too much explanation. The flaked-out dog — and its tether to an unseen owner — these are clearer illustrations.

Tagged , , , , , ,
Jun 24 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Wild strawberry

Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 3.15pm (day 3,590)

Wild strawberry, 23/6/21

This is not an eventful period of my life. This is nothing to do with the Great Fear, it’s just how the wheel is turning at the moment. But at least the wild strawberries are out, and waiting to be found.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Jun 16 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Landscape

Formal Sheep Portrait (High Pike)

Tuesday 15th June 2021, 1.05pm (day 3,582)

Formal sheep portrait, High Pike, 15/6/21

A very fine day was had in the Lake District. Even the sheep seemed to be enjoying it, and this ewe poses readily for the camera as they often do, with High Pike behind. A shame her lamb did not feel like joining in too, but one can’t have everything. (For more pictures from today, see my Wainwrights blog.)

Tagged , , , , , , , ,
Jun 14 2021
2 Comments
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

A dash of colour

Sunday 13th June 2021, 1.20pm (day 3,580)

Everything’s growing fast. Do the weeding in the garden and three days later it all comes back, it seems. These plants — I am not botanist enough to identify them — offered a splash of colour to the mostly green landscape but it was only temporary; they are weeds, they had to go. But like everything else, they will no doubt return.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
May 30 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Water butt ecosystem

Sunday 30th May 2021, 3.55pm (day 3,566)

If you can’t see why it’s a good idea to put a plank of wood like this in one’s garden water butt, you’ve clearly never had to get the drowned corpse of an indeterminate creature out of one, as we once did. Anyway, over the last few months, it has been colonised. The slime came first — now, this rather more photogenic red fungus, or that is what I assume it is. Who knows, give it a couple of thousand years and we might have entire civilisations existing in this water butt universe.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
May 26 2021
1 Comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

The white and the black

Tuesday 25th May 2021, 11.05am (day 3,561)

White and black calves, 25/5/21

Went out on a walk, not that the weather is getting any better — atypically, May 2021 has been a cold and grey month in the UK. These calves, particularly the black one, look as grumpy about this as I feel.

Tagged , , , , , ,
May 24 2021
Leave a comment
Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Rule 1: Follow mother

Monday 24th May 2021, 3.20pm (day 3,560)

Duck and ducklings, 24/5/21

Have I yet done 2021’s duckling/gosling pic? No? Well, here you are then. These balls of fluff can get up to a decent speed in the water, you have to give them that.

Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
← Older posts
Newer posts →