Rich's Photo Albums

Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Leicester University Botanical Gardens 29th November 2016

Leicester University Botanical Gardens, in Oadby, are always beautifully maintained and worth visiting at any time of the year, there is always something of interest to look at.

I have little idea what different trees, plants and flowers are called, but do know that I like them

The first frost of the 2016/7 winter settled on a fallen leaf

Low evening sun shining on a tree

Slowly sinking sun shining through the trees

Evening sun shining on grasses

Even at the end of November there is colour in the Botanic Gardens, here highlighted by the low evening sun.

Frost on a ground covering plant in a shady corner of the Botanical Gardens

Some of the last surviving laves clinging to the tree

A carpet of fallen autumn leaves

Thursday, 17 November 2016

Welney Wetland Trust 17th November 2016

Welney Wetland Trust is located in the Fens, and is a natural home for many waterfowl. Most importantly over winter it is home to thousands of Whooper Swans and a healthy population of Bewick Swans. There are also huge numbers of, in particular, Wigeon, as well as Pochard and Mallard. Like all such wetland reserves, many other species are likely to appear at any time, but without doubt, the wintering swans are the most significant populations there;

The following is a selection of the shots taken on the day...

Whooper Swan

Female Mallard

Pintail - I was especially happy to get this shot as it was my first Pintail photographed.

Wigeon

Canada Geese.
Bottom feeding birds can be elegant and beautiful, but when diving to feed from the bottom can look wonderfully inelegant

Whooper Swan:
Swans, like Geese, are beautifully elegant birds, as shown in the shots above, when in the water or flying... however.. between those two conditions... perhaps it's a different story...