Sunday, 18 November 2012

Beech balls, Berries and Bambi (almost)

A foggy start, and a walk on the usual beat, up Warter Road..

Beech balls...

Everybody go "groan".  Actually a curious fungus, quite unlike the birch bracket fungus.

Lots of little balls...




I think this one is trying to say "Hello"...


Just above the fog, the surveillance continues, more subtle (or perhaps a very bad picture)......


More strange fruit, this time fieldfares but it is a real challenge getting close enough to do them justice.  On the odd times you see them close up they are really striking birds, not the Hitchcock sinister shapes in the middle distance...



 Berries.  Just by the car, in a patch of replanted hedgerow, was this crop of berries.  Not the usual, they looked like Gogi? (sorry, I've eaten them but I can't spell them) berries...




And Bambi?  Sorry that was a tease, but the was evidence of his passing...



Sunday and the sun came out.

Don't know quite where this picture was taken, it's hard to tell...


It was a frosty start to the day, and the puddles were still showing it...


The colours were quite striking...


I really don't know whether this next picture (peeking over a hedge) is quite good, or really, unspeakably, awful.  Put it on full screen and look for a short while.  It is a bit like a still life (in the modern style - that is random rubbish- and a bit of landscape.  Let me know,  No, on second thoughts don't.


The leaves have almost gone...


They're still up there...



The first of two woodland shots..


Meanwhile Mrs D spotted a white pheasant, waiting for winter to give it a natural advantage


This second, similar to the first, has been carefully framed to the golden ratio, phi, which is supposed to make it irresistible to medieval maidens (or something).  I think given the widescreen, modern view, it should be a bit more letter-box.

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