Bluebells in Foxley Woods, norfolk

Foxley is Norfolk's largest wood and we walked round most of it to find the bluebells but they were certainly worth it when we found them. Here a selection of other spring flowers in the wood and two different bees showing the variation in size in that insect family. For the records the flowers are Early Spotted Orchid (great number of these), Celandine, Wood Avens, Greater Stitchwort, Red Campion and Lady's Smock.

Windy Skies at Cromer and Holkham Hall

 A few images from a windy day at Holkham Hall and then at Cromer for the low tide. The monochrome images at Holkham were taken with the R72 filter - most had too much flare to be usable but I like images 2 and 3. Rest taken with 10-stop neutral density. All on Fuji XT-1. The skies changed constantly and eventually rain set in which stopped play as impossible to keep rain off the filters in the strong winds . Thanks North Norfolk Photography Club for your hospitality

An Ambitious Project

I had a bit of spare time today as it was much too windy to plant out the delicate bedding plants - today's allotted task - so I decided to set up a website (Ann Miles Nature Photography) to catalog and share my many nature photographs. I hope to find time to regularly add to the collections from past images so that eventually I will be posting new photographs. This is some task and I suspect not going to happen for a year or two!!
Here are four recent photographs from my garden that I like as pictorial images as well as being suitable for identification purposes.

Cambridge and Pakenham Mills with R72 Filter

I experimented with using an R72 (dense red filter) with my Fuji to give a pseudo infrared image while in Paris (http://pin-sharp.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/trees-and-shadows-from-paris.html). I have recently been trying a few further shots first in Cambridge and then at Pakenham Wind and Water Mills on the way back from the EAF Exhibition at Wingfield. I have not yet found how to do any type of satisfactory colour conversion but do like the contrasty monochromes from the files. 

Other Birds at Lakenheath

The Great Crested Grebes and Reed Buntings paraded in front of us showing off their pristine plumage while a Common Tern put on a great display of hovering and diving even managing to catch a fair-sized fish. Other species included Greylag Goose, Egret and Heron, Marsh Harrier, Common Cranes, Greenfinch, Great Tit and Chaffinch. Bittern were heard but not seen.

Hobbies at Lakenheath RSPB Reserve

This page gives some idea of what it was like at Lakenheath RSPB Reserve today with Hobbies hunting overhead - sometimes 8 in a the same patch of sky and some coming close. The most we counted at one time were 25 but some of these were distant. More birds and insect life to follow.