Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted July 16, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 16, 2021 Mellington Hall caravan Park. While I was at Bishop Castle yesterday laying flowers on my Dad's grave I called into where Mum and Dad used to have a caravan. So many happy times spent there so I just wanted to share a few pictures . The last picture is from the fishing lake and it was only when I walked round the other side I realised that they where actually roots under the crystal clear water from a nearby Willow tree. If you zoom in you can see 100,s of tiny Rudd fry 7 1
Okehsoul1952 Posted July 16, 2021 Posted July 16, 2021 The place looks idyllic.....could imagine you having loads of fun in a setting like that! 1
Winsford Soul Posted July 16, 2021 Posted July 16, 2021 On 16/07/2021 at 18:47, Okehsoul1952 said: The place looks idyllic.....could imagine you having loads of fun in a setting like that! Expand Thanks mate. It certainly has a special place in my life. Bit sanitised version of what it was with tarmac roads and occasional street lights and not as many overgrown wild areas. Progress they call it it but I would still jump at the chance to own a caravan there. Only 90 minutes from home.
Popular Post Soulandy Posted July 16, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 16, 2021 On 16/07/2021 at 17:24, Winsford Soul said: World heritage site. Pontcysyllte viaduct casting its shadow on the river Dee, tree's and fields far below and a distant view of the less well known Chirk viaduct Expand Had a couple of days camping at Llangollen the other week and walked from Chirk back to Llangollen along the canal and over the viaduct, great place 6
Neil Austin Posted July 16, 2021 Posted July 16, 2021 On 16/07/2021 at 10:46, Winsford Soul said: Buzzard . Perched in a tree this morning about 100 metres away from the back garden, cropped image Expand Nice buzzard, looks very regal thanks Steve 1
Popular Post washlively Posted July 17, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 17, 2021 On the Viaduct theme. This is Chirk Viaduct with Telford and Robertson's efforts side by side. 6
Popular Post washlively Posted July 17, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 17, 2021 Yet another, Dutton Viaduct near Acton Bridge with the Weaver Navigation running under it. Incidentally, a great location for wild life the odd ship and trains crossing of course. 5
Popular Post Lozzer66 Posted July 18, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 18, 2021 Little ladybird having a moment in the sunshine 7
Winsford Soul Posted July 18, 2021 Posted July 18, 2021 (edited) On 17/07/2021 at 16:35, washlively said: Yet another, Dutton Viaduct near Acton Bridge with the Weaver Navigation running under it. Incidentally, a great location for wild life the odd ship and trains crossing of course. Expand Know it well. Used to swim in the weaver navigation to cool off after a massive bike ride from Widnes to Delemere forest and back. Great picture Edited July 18, 2021 by Winsford Soul 1
Winsford Soul Posted July 18, 2021 Posted July 18, 2021 On 18/07/2021 at 14:42, Lozzer66 said: Little ladybird having a moment in the sunshine Expand Nice picture Lorraine. X 1 1
Popular Post Martyn Pitt Posted July 19, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 19, 2021 Only took the lighter kit out on Saturday, this was taken with a 300mm f4 lens, ideal for Butterflies and the like about 6 feet from the camera, unfortunately this one was a bit far out from the bank but I was pleased I had managed to get it in focus ... a male Banded Demoiselle 6
Winsford Soul Posted July 19, 2021 Posted July 19, 2021 On 19/07/2021 at 17:53, Martyn Pitt said: Only took the lighter kit out on Saturday, this was taken with a 300mm f4 lens, ideal for Butterflies and the like about 6 feet from the camera, unfortunately this one was a bit far out from the bank but I was pleased I had managed to get it in focus ... a male Banded Demoiselle Expand Stunning picture my friend. They are so elegant to watch had the pleasure of watching two last Thursday on my latest visit to Shropshire at Mellington Hall. Unlike you I only had the big daft white with me ( 500mm f4 ) 1
Martyn Pitt Posted July 19, 2021 Posted July 19, 2021 The 300 has a close focus of 5 - 6 feet which is great for Butterflies, Dragons and Damselflies and is one sharp lens, plus I can get away with putting it on a lighter tripod, given how hot it was going to be it was a no brainer. 1
Popular Post Widnes63 Posted July 19, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 19, 2021 My grandson Ronnie holding my new grandson Rex. 11 1
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted July 19, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 19, 2021 On 19/07/2021 at 20:06, Widnes63 said: My grandson Ronnie holding my new grandson Rex. Expand Brilliant Ste and massive congratulations mate 3 1
Popular Post Martyn Pitt Posted July 20, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 20, 2021 I can set myself some right challenges when out and about with a camera, these Hoverflies were darting in and out of the shafts of sunlight in the woods, so I thought why not. First I had to find one in the viewfinder, then get focus, then find it again, find focus again and eventually get a shot whilst they did their best to avoid getting papped. For the benefit of Smiffy these were shot at 6400 ISO. 7 1
Julianb Posted July 20, 2021 Posted July 20, 2021 Bee fest - can you spot the 6 bees on the yellow flower? 3
Okehsoul1952 Posted July 20, 2021 Posted July 20, 2021 Think i can just about make out two...and that's pushing it? You're gonna say later that there we're non.....aren't you?
Neil Austin Posted July 20, 2021 Posted July 20, 2021 On 20/07/2021 at 16:46, Martyn Pitt said: I can set myself some right challenges when out and about with a camera, these Hoverflies were darting in and out of the shafts of sunlight in the woods, so I thought why not. First I had to find one in the viewfinder, then get focus, then find it again, find focus again and eventually get a shot whilst they did their best to avoid getting papped. For the benefit of Smiffy these were shot at 6400 ISO. Expand Fantastic snap thanks for sharing 1 1
Julianb Posted July 20, 2021 Posted July 20, 2021 On 20/07/2021 at 17:02, Okehsoul1952 said: Think i can just about make out two...and that's pushing it? You're gonna say later that there we're non.....aren't you? Expand There are 6 but I can't spot them all either! My excuse is that my eyes are old
Popular Post Amsterdam Russ Posted July 20, 2021 Author Popular Post Posted July 20, 2021 A few pics from an afternoon bike ride to the Schinkelbos nature reserve, which is part of the Amsterdam woods (Amsterdamse Bos) and sits on the outer perimeter of Schiphol airport... A juvenile dabchick (little grebe). A juvenile moorhen (I'm guessing). This little creature was nearly underfoot and appeared a little lost and bewildered. Frogs (not toads). A toad (not a frog!). Meadow brown butterfly. Reminded me of an old-fashioned bristle shaving brush. Teasels. Stonechat - pic heavily cropped. My 300mm zoom lens just isn't good enough for capturing small birds at a distance. Really pleased to have seen one here as not spotted them before. And about a second after I'd taken the last pic, the stonechat flew off like a bullet. Again, pic heavily cropped. The afternoon temperature was supposedly about 21C, but it was way hotter than that - more like a breezeless 25C, which was manageable, but must admit I was soaked in sweat when I completed my cycle ride and needed an instant cooling shower. No complaints, mind you. It is summer! 8
Popular Post Martyn Pitt Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 21, 2021 A Brown Hawker perched up for me for a brief moment on Saturday, they are rarely so obliging. If you see a dragonfly with bronzy gold wings in flight it is one of these. This one is a female I think from the paler colour eyes. 8
Popular Post Mal C Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) I was at Dunraven Bay last night, actually been every night this week for a swim and BBQ.. had a bit of fun with silhouettes.. Edited July 21, 2021 by Mal C 12
Popular Post Mal C Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) This was a good one, was in GAP on Oxford street on Sat, top end, and they were having a closing down sale, tried a few things on, and released they had already let allot of staff go.... Ladies pls avert your eyes Edited July 21, 2021 by Mal C 4
Tomangoes Posted July 21, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021 Always told GAP was derived from..... Gay and Proud. Ed
Winsford Soul Posted July 21, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021 On 21/07/2021 at 14:53, Tomangoes said: Always told GAP was derived from..... Gay and Proud. Ed Expand Well I've never been GAP. . Never shopped their either.
Amsterdam Russ Posted July 21, 2021 Author Posted July 21, 2021 On 21/07/2021 at 14:53, Tomangoes said: Always told GAP was derived from..... Gay and Proud. Ed Expand Courtesy of Snopes: Quote Gap Inc. was founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher as a single store staffed by a handful of employees. The retailer took its name in homage to “the generation gap,” a term popular in the late 1960s describing the intellectual, ethical, and social gulf between young people and their parents’ generation. Expand Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gap-store-name-origin/ 3
Mal C Posted July 21, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021 Ok, so my piccie can be interpreted in either way; but one certain thing is them dummies are out of a JOB! lol
Okehsoul1952 Posted July 21, 2021 Posted July 21, 2021 On 21/07/2021 at 12:51, Mal C said: This was a good one, was in GAP on Oxford street on Sat, top end, and they were having a closing down sale, tried a few things on, and released they had already let allot of staff go.... Ladies pls avert your eyes Expand Have you got any in female form....you can blow up? Need one or two for my allotment....white cabbage fly has decimated my plumbs!! 1
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted July 22, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 22, 2021 Common Garden Orb Spider It was next to me when I was sat on the patio this evening before the thunderstorm 6 1
Neil Austin Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 On 22/07/2021 at 20:04, Winsford Soul said: Common Garden Orb Spider It was next to me when I was sat on the patio this evening before the thunderstorm Expand Steve very scary , what a monster 2
Winsford Soul Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 On 22/07/2021 at 20:33, Neil Austin said: Steve very scary , what a monster Expand Thanks Neil. It is actually about half the size in real life. I just zoomed in a bit and cropped it to make it look more scary than it really is.
Johnny Corsair Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 On 21/07/2021 at 12:44, Mal C said: I was at Dunraven Bay last night, actually been every night this week for a swim and BBQ.. had a bit of fun with silhouettes.. Expand Your first three are fantastic, so show them to the wider world - they would appreciate them. 2
Martyn Pitt Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 On 22/07/2021 at 20:04, Winsford Soul said: Common Garden Orb Spider It was next to me when I was sat on the patio this evening before the thunderstorm Expand That's a bit of a surprise mate ... I would have thought you would have been sat next to Lou 1
Winsford Soul Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 On 23/07/2021 at 07:37, Martyn Pitt said: That's a bit of a surprise mate ... I would have thought you would have been sat next to Lou Expand Spider isn't as deadly mate. 1
Popular Post Davenpete Posted July 25, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 25, 2021 Went for a gentle hobble on the beech (long story - suffice to say I managed to run myself over on Friday - not badly injured given what it could've been, hopefully it won't curtail the activities of this dancing bear at Cleethorpes too much). Lovely patch of Sea Holly - one of my favourite plants - a nice breeze made it very pleasant. Spotted this lovely Golden Plover whilst I wandered the beech too. Dx 8
Popular Post Martyn Pitt Posted July 25, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 25, 2021 When dragonflies emerge they climb up a stem and basically fill out and harden off, they are described as teneral. We were on the far shore of the reservoir clearing these dead weeds from the shallows as they were making it impossible to see the waders on the shoreline from the hides. One of the guys was about to pull this weed out when he saw this, a teneral Migrant Hawker, you can see its wing tips are still curled up. As I didn't have my camera with me this was taken with my phone. 7
Popular Post Mal C Posted July 25, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 25, 2021 (edited) Was fishing last night, storm never got to us in Chepstow, so it turned out to be a nice moderate night, lowest was 16 degrees…. Very doable took a while to get goIng, most of the night in fact but I had a chance to pick pocket a spot I knew on a swim about 40 meters away, clipped it up and hey presto, 7 carp, 3 of which were mirrors off this one spot, and this beauty at 18.6lb Edited July 25, 2021 by Mal C 5
Popular Post Tomangoes Posted July 30, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 30, 2021 First trip to the smoke in 2 years... Giving London in the sky a go... Ed 5
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted July 30, 2021 Popular Post Posted July 30, 2021 My back garden Buzzard Well its taken from the back garden but the bird is about 100 metres away in the trees at the back of the old school it was a very heavy drizzle combined with a high ISO of 6400 resulting in a very grainy picture and its heavily cropped but ive always said a bad picture is definitely better than no picture 7
Okehsoul1952 Posted July 30, 2021 Posted July 30, 2021 Dosen't look all that 'bad' to me...an absolute beauty of a bird of prey!
Neil Austin Posted July 31, 2021 Posted July 31, 2021 On 30/07/2021 at 17:43, Winsford Soul said: My back garden Buzzard Well its taken from the back garden but the bird is about 100 metres away in the trees at the back of the old school it was a very heavy drizzle combined with a high ISO of 6400 resulting in a very grainy picture and its heavily cropped but ive always said a bad picture is definitely better than no picture Expand Steve what a cracker, great pic mate
Stephen Houghton Posted July 31, 2021 Posted July 31, 2021 On 01/05/2021 at 15:11, Winsford Soul said: Have to share this. At 9.42pm Someone cut down the nesting pole / nest platform at Lyn Brenig Osprey project in North Wales. the Osprey had actually laid her first egg on Thursday . The nest itself was been monitored 24 hrs by cameras but not the surrounding area. The area can only be reached by boat as its so inaccessible. I hope the SCUM that did this gets a good slap before they get banged up for a good few years. There are only five breeding pairs of Osprey in Wales which makes it so much more heartbreaking. Expand That's shocking ,but they might catch them ,and in court they will tell a story to the court of deprivation at home and poor little me .or rich kids that got bored .I would bring back the birch for these scumbags
Neil Austin Posted July 31, 2021 Posted July 31, 2021 Just shocking, shame on them , speechless to be honest , words fail
Popular Post Amsterdam Russ Posted August 1, 2021 Author Popular Post Posted August 1, 2021 A nice selection of reader pics courtesy of the BBC News website and “Your pictures of Scotland 23-30 July”: Source: BBC News / © Sharon Macpherson Photos here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57971665 5
Popular Post Tomangoes Posted August 1, 2021 Popular Post Posted August 1, 2021 View from London Bridge towards Tower Bridge with his Belfast in-between.. Ed 7
Neil Austin Posted August 1, 2021 Posted August 1, 2021 On 01/08/2021 at 11:18, Tomangoes said: View from London Bridge towards Tower Bridge with his Belfast in-between.. Ed Expand Great place to be for a day out
Tomangoes Posted August 1, 2021 Posted August 1, 2021 Really nice to enjoy an almost back to normal London. Pretty busy, a few overseas tourists, London Marathon, covent garden full, hardly any police, theatre land busy. Ed
Popular Post Ncfc Posted August 2, 2021 Popular Post Posted August 2, 2021 Very chilly early morning for July (5am) 3 mullet before work this being biggest at 5lb 10 oz 4 1
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