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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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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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Baildon Bank & Midgeley Wood, 8 Sept.
Last Monday I went for a walk along Baildon Bank and Midgeley Wood. My recorded track is shown on the map at the bottom. I was hoping to see Green Woodpeckers. There’s lots of Ant nests but I saw no Green Woodpeckers, not even the yaffle of one, until I was back at my car…
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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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Grouse on Baildon Moor. 16 Aug 2025.
On 16 Aug I spent some time on Baildon Moor. A lot of the time I was not too far from the Trig Point. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image to see it in better quality in the carousel gallery with an i for more information. And if you like what you see please click…
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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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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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Baildon Bank in August
I still need to pay a few more visits to Baildon Bank, I have heard Green Woodpeckers but have yet to see one. Baildon Bank is now part of the Bradford Pennine Gateway Nature Reserve and you can see the extent of Gateway on the interactive map on the Baildon Moor page. We have yet…