Today was an Autumn Walk by the river Aire at the Denso Marston Nature Reserve led by Steve, the warden. The title was simply Autumn Walk leaving it open to be about anything that was found and for it to be guided by what people wanted to talk about. I got talking to another photographer that was on site and so spent little time with Steve.
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Birds
Near the entrance to the reserve were a few Mandarin Ducks. Two males, where one was looking quite splendid but the other was still growing its breeding plumage.
Grey Herons were near the entrance, in the Wild Flower Meadow, and in the field near the footbridge.
The meadow also had several Carrion Crow hunting for food, one of them looked as though it had a few fluffy fledgling feathers.
Roe Deer
After wandering off by myself to take a photo of the car wheel, see below, I spotted a brown patch across the river, partly behind a tree. The colour was right and it made me think about looking for Roe Deer more carefully. I looked at it through my binoculars and realised that it was a small part of the flank of a Roe Deer.
I then spent some time following them as the went down river. They were well hidden by the undergrowth and quite difficult to see. I didn’t manage to get good sightings of the stag.
Fungi, Galls and Wheels
During the walk I kept my eyes open for fungi and managed to spot several. As usual the ID is very unsure Silvery porecrust, or Oligoporus romellii, Bracket Fungus, Chaetosphaerella phaeostroma.
One of the Oak trees had a lot of Galls on the leaves. Cherry Galls, Silk-button Spangle Galls and Common Spangle Galls.
The car tyre in the river is showing how much higher the water is than it has been for several weeks. Hopefully a lot of it is getting to reservoirs.
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