{"id":10320,"date":"2024-09-25T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:06:31","slug":"mid-september-dmnr-wetherby-racecourse-goosemoor-nature-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/mid-september-dmnr-wetherby-racecourse-goosemoor-nature-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid September, DMNR, Wetherby Racecourse, Goosemoor Nature Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last couple of weeks I have been down to Denso Marston Nature Reserve and along to Wetherby Racecourse for the Society of Photographers Roadshow. After leaving the racecourse I asked Google Maps to show me nearby nature reserves, I then spent a couple of hours at Goosemoor Nature Reserve at Cowthorpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denso Marston Nature Reserve<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant & Goosander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cormorant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckled Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dogwood berries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Helicopter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At Denso Marston Nature Reserve there were 3 Cormorants on the river, one of them a juvenile. At one time a Cormorant was diving right next to the Grey Heron but a tree was in the way preventing me from getting a photo of them both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The helicopter is owned by TJ Morris Ltd., who trade as Home Bargains. On the 18th, when this was taken it flew to Keighley. Apparently this is a rather nice Airbus Helicopters H160 B. At first I thought that the rotor arms looked bent due to the rolling shutter effect of my camera – it was taken using electronic shutter, but looking at photos of it on the ground show that the rotor arms have a kink at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographer Roadshow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Trying the 18-50mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trying the 18-50mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trying the 18-50mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trying 200-800mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trying 200-800mm lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views from racecourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views from racecourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views from racecourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views from racecourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views from racecourse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, 19th Sept was The Society of Photographers’ Roadshow at Wetherby Racecourse. I have been interested in Sigma’s new 18-50mm lens with the Canon RF-S mount. Sigma were going to have a stand at the roadshow so I went along with my camera to see if they had one I could try. I compared it to my EF-S 17-55 and I am now the owner of the Sigma lens. It didn’t sway the deal, but I was told that if I registered the purchase I would get a 10% discount on my next Sigma lens – what he didn’t say was that I would have to order it within 30 days. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also had a look at the new Canon RF 200-800mm lens. Impressive. I’ll stick with my 150-600mm for a while yet though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goosemoor Nature Reserve<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When it was time to leave the roadshow I asked Google if there were any local nature reserves and then headed off to Goosemoor Nature Reserve at Cowthorpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as I got out of the car a moth landed on my trousers, it even let me walk to the boot of the car and get my camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Darter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Darter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Southern Hawker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Southern Hawker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Darter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alder Leaf Beetle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alder Leaf Beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aphid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ladybird larva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Green Bottle Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crane Fly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Speckled Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Small White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Comma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robin’s Pincushion Gall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosehip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Water Mint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kestrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blue Tits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunnock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great Tit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of Goosemoor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of Goosemoor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of Goosemoor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bulrush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What I liked most about the reserve though was the walk around part of its perimeter. The fences seemed to be a place that the dragonflies liked to rest on. Near the beehives and apple orchard a Southern Hawker let me get up quite close<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual, in fact 2 usual things, tap on an image to see it better quality in a gallery and let me know if I have got the ID of anything wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A trip to Denso Marston NR again, Cormorants, plus Wetherby Racecourse and Goosemoor Nature Reserve, Dragonflies up nice and close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,4],"tags":[18,178],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denso","category-paul","tag-denso-marston-nature-reserve","tag-dragonfliy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7D2_5109.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-2Gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10383,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions\/10383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}