Category: Shipley Glen
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Kingfishers and Polypores
Another visit to Shipley Glen and Crag Hebble Dam. Male and female Kingfisher and large Birch polypore. And a walk down through Trench Meadows. Crag Hebble Dam On this visit to Crag Hebble Dam there were no hoards of runners and cyclists so I was able to spend some time watching and waiting. The header…
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Friday & Saturday. Looking for Redwing & Fieldfare and failing but Kingfisher – success.
On Friday I went out looking for decent views of Redwing and/or Fieldfare. I have some decent photos of Redwing because we have had them in our garden and they also used to be in Roberts Park. In fact one of my Roberts Park Redwing photos was used to promote a Children’s BBC program about…
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4, 7, 9 & 10 November at various locations . Birds, Fungi & Landscapes
Four trips out with my camera. Roberts Park, Milner Field, RSPB Fairburn Ings & St Aidans, and Bracken Hall Green.
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Kingfishers & Fungi in the first week of November 2024
The first week of November has seen me down by the river Aire a couple of times hoping to get more good sightings of Kingfisher and also looking for Fungi – knowing full well that I would probably not be able to identify them. I also attended the Fungi Foray organised by Bracken Hall Countryside…
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Bracken Hall Green, July 2023
Some photos of Purple Hairstreak butterflies at Shipley Glen/Bracken Hall Green.
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July 2022
During July I took my camera out with me a few times and also into our garden. I had trips to Denso Marston Nature Reserve, Ben Rhydding Gravel Pits, and Shipley Glen (no Purple Hairstreak spotted). As usual you can click on an image to see it within its own gallery. I could look back…
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Baildon Peace Garden and Bracken Hall Farm in July
After the building of the new Baildon Community Link and the demolition of the old decontamination centre that had been used the space was turned into a Peace Garden. On Sunday I had reason (Ingress) to be near there and I just happened to have my camera with me fitted with a macro lens.
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July 2021 Wanders
This is a collection of photos from several trips out. As with a few recent trips one of the reasons for the places I went was for Ingress uniques. The first set are from around Tong Park Dam, then along a tiny part of the Welcome Way and then on to Baildon Moor, South of…