Category: Denso Marston Nature Reserve
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Finishing Dec 2025
These sets of photos are to finish off December 2025. I still have lots of 2025 images that I would like to share but I realised that if I tried to keep posts in chronological order I would be still working on June. I have already posted several times with images from January and intend…
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Snipe at High Royds & Siskin at DMNR. Nov 30.
On Sunday the sky was clear for a while so I went out to see if Snipe were visible at High Royds Pond, and Yes, they were. The header image is of the reeds, looking South, with the sunlight on them. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image to see it in better quality…
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Fungi at St James & Buck Wood. 17 & 21 Nov.
Yet more photos of Fungi, and in the gallery you can see what ID I have given them but I am sure I have got some of them wrong. If you think the photos show enough detail for a different ID please let me know. In quite a few cases I have photos of the…
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Riverside Wildflower Meadow. July 2025
Catching up with photos of July Butterflies, Common Blue and Small Copper, on the Wildflower Meadow next to Denso Marston Nature Reserve
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Autumn Walk at DMNR, Sept 2025
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…
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River, Canal & Meadow. August 17 & 21, 2025
These photos are from a couple of walks along the river at Denso Marston Nature Reserve, along the Leeds Liverpool Canal and a look at the Wildlife Meadow next to DMNR. I particularly like the photos of the male Common Blue butterfly. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image to see it in better…
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DMNR + WFM. 30 Aug.
On Saturday morning I decided to go out a little earlier than usual, at about 8:00am. In the Wild Flower Meadow next to DMNR I spotted quite a few unfamiliar beetles. Most of them were on the seed heads of Knapweed and five or 6 could be on one plant which I found surprising considering…
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Denso + Scrape 2 Aug ’25
I am playing catch-up with going through my photos. I still have lots to look through from July but this lot are from early August, taken on a visit to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, the Scrape between the reserve and the Buck Lane footbridge. The stars of the show were the good views of Common…