Category: Shipley Glen
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Shipley Glen Fungi on 22 Oct
Having found the previous visit interesting where we looked at fruit, berries and fungi. I decided to go and have another look at fungi in Shipley Glen. I have stuck a photo up as header image and stuck my neck out when I say it is Russet Toughshank, Gymnopus dryophilus Butter Cap, Rhodocollybia butyracea. I…
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21 Oct. Bracken Hall Countryside Centre Walk
Today was one of John Dallas’s walks from Bracken Hall Countryside Centre. The idea was to keep an eye out for fungi, fruit, nuts, and berries! John guided us around the things that could feed us with his incredible in-depth knowledge, but in line with my recent sign-up to the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group I was…
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October Fungi at Bracken Hall Green
This visit to Bracken Hall Green and Shipley Glen was different to my usual trips in that I didn’t take my long lens or general lens with me. I only carried my macro lens with ring flash clipped to the front of it. This meant that my back didn’t not ache quite as much as…
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Bracken Hall Green 11 Aug
I quite like the Small Copper butterfly so thought these from Bracken Hall Green worth sharing. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image, not its caption, to see it in better quality in the gallery. And if you like what you see please click on one or more of the Share buttons at the…
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Bracken Hall Green to the river. Mid July 2025
I have had a few visits to Bracken Hall Green recently (see the category: Shipley Glen) and these are from visits on 12 & 13 July 2025. The visit on 12 was with two other members of the Bingley Camera Club wildlife group. It also involved a walk down to Hirst Mill weir on the…
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Bracken Hall Green Walk. 8 Aug ’25
On Friday I joined the Bracken Hall Countryside Centre’s Family Walk Exploring Shipley Glen. The plan was to have a leisurely walk along Shipley Glen and then back along Bracken Hall Green but then we changed it by heading to the Oak trees opposite the centre to look for Purple Hairstreak butterflies and then along…
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Baildon Moor 21 June ’25
A walk with camera on Baildon Moor to see birds, bugs and butterflies. Nice views of Whitethroat and a Golden-ringed Dragonfly.
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January 2025 and new lens
My new lens on visits to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, High Royds Pond, Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits and Shipley Glen. Snipe, Kingfisher, Siskin, Mandarin Duck, Red Kite and Redwing.