I've got two 1TB hard
drives on which I store my images (the same images duplicated onto each hard
drive, for safety) and they are rapidly getting full. Over the last few days,
and I guess the next few days as well, I've been attempting to sort through all
the images with a view to deleting the not so good ones to make some space (I
find the whole routine very tedious and there
are plenty of 'break times'). But
so far I've had no trouble finding plenty of the 'not so good ones', it makes me wonder why I
thought some of them were worth saving in the first place!
So, here is a random selection of a few of the 'better'
images that seem to have slipped the net from some of my earlier posts.
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| A Grey Squirrel looking for somewhere to hide his Chestnut |
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Whilst
out looking for Fungi I came across a family of Common Lizards living in the
hollow and rotting branches of a fallen tree.
When I
first saw them, or rather when they saw me, they hid inside the hollow wood. I
slowly and quietly sat down as close as I could get and patiently waited, after
about five minutes they all emerged and started to bask in the sun and didn't
seem to be at all bothered by my presence.
Not far away from the spot where I found the Common Lizards I noticed
this large collection of nuts by the base of a rotting tree stump, and most had
a neat hole gnawed into them. Back at home I checked my reference books and
matched the pattern of tooth marks on the nuts to those made by Wood Mice or
Yellow-necked Mice.
Both these mice will gnaw a hole in the nut with their nose outside so
that the lower incisors inside the hole leave marks on the inner slope and the
upper incisors create scratch marks on the outside of the shell.
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| Another example of feeding activity this time pine cones before and after the attention of a Grey Squirrel. |
A couple of
weeks ago I went for a walk around Incombe Hole in Buckinghamshire with Keith
of Holdingmoments where, for
about thirty minutes, we experienced three Sparrowhawks (possibly four for a
time) initially playing what looked like a game of tag before being harassed
away by Magpies and Crows.
Two
massively cropped images!
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| Who says birds can't fly upside down! |
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| A couple of images of the area in which I do most of my walking. |
