My Flora and Fauna Friday subject this week is the Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus). The species is found across most of temperate Europe and Asia.
This individual was photographed emerging from a nest cavity in an apple tree at Faddiley near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England. There is mistletoe growing on the apple tree above the entrance to the nest.
This is also a contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Trees photo challenge.
My Flora and Fauna Friday post this week is the Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) a bulbous perennial plant.
Found in Atlantic areas from north western Spain to the British Isles. The plant is associated with ancient woodland and is regarded as a sign of spring. This display of Bluebells was photographed on a woodland section of Bickerton Hill in southern Cheshire, England.
This week Ann-Christine gives us the prompt Soft for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
My first thought was of some of the photos I had taken last year when I was experimenting with photographing flowers and plants with various unusual lenses. Mostly fast portrait lenses but also some CCTV lenses adapted to a mirrorless camera.
This week my Flora and Fauna Friday post is the final week of my sequence of photos showing the growth of a clump of Snowdrops.
As it’s the final week I will show the whole sequence in this post.
My Flora and Fauna Friday post this week is number three in a sequence of photos taken weekly showing the development of a group of Snowdrops.
Photo 1 is here.
Photo 2 is here.
In this photo the group is showing more of the white flowers that give the plant its name and there are more emerging from the soil.
Week 2 of my documentation of a clump of Snowdrops growing in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.
A week after the first photo was taken and the Snowdrops are starting to show the beginnings of the white flowers that give the plant its name.
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Challenge Review 2020.
I decided to go with the theme of details of the natural world. A small selection of photos from 2020.
The green moss and orange lichen on a limestone boulder caught my eye on a walk in the spring.
Early summer saw me experimenting with the monochrome options on a mirrorless camera. Variegated Hosta leaves in monochrome.
Summer also saw me experimenting with photographing flowers and plants with various unusual lenses. A Coneflower photographed with a fast portrait lens wide open.
Late summer saw the leaves starting to change colour. This solitary orange Maple leaf caught my eye when I was walking past it.
