It is Pheasant season at the moment and look what roamed into our garden helping them selves to all the fallen berries they even came up to the patio to check out the bird feeder !
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wildlife. Show all posts
Hitchin Lavender farm
What a wonderful sunny day and perfect for going to Hitchin Lavender farm. So after dropping Sophie off at school Ella and i jumped in the car and headed out, with acres of gorgeous lavenders coming out to bloom. The day was made extra special as it was a meet up bloggers organised by Annie the lady formally know as Mamasaurus but is now AKA Manneskjur, there were names i recognised like Helen from Actually mummy and new people too which is wonderful it is fab to make new connections such as Sarah from Grenglish and Victoria from Southbourne gardens. Check out this lovely old barn and the beautiful timbers inside was lovely and you could get a nice bit of cake. Outside was great too with a large variety of different lavenders to buy, which i could not resist and i bought 4 a white, pink, purple and blue types the white was really different i have not seen before. Warning there will be many photos here i could not help myself, lots of lovely blue lavender and when Ella and i stepped into the lavender field the first thing you became aware apart from the beautiful blue lavender was the buzzing as the flowers were alive with bugs, bees and butterflies which i have taken many snaps of as the bugs looked like jewels against the blue lavender, Ella enjoyed watching the bees and trying to grab at the butterflies of which there were thousands of them bright beautiful and fluttery perfect to capture our attention. It will be great to see the posts from the other ladies as i didn't get to spend time with them so sad, as i had to make sure i was back in time for the school run and my pictures were take while Ella was in my arms wiggling making it rather difficult to snap. However we both had a glorious time and in 2 weeks i here the whole field will be blooming what a sight that must be. There are so many great pictures here of the wonderful lavender and wildlife i am thinking i must get round to printing some out and getting them framed for our new house, it much nicer having pictures on the walls that you have taken yourself rather than buying from a shop. If you would like to see more amazing pictures of lavender check the lovely Manneskjur blog post on Hitchin
Ducks & Ducklings, Geese and Goslings
We just love getting out and about and today we took a walk around the lake to feed the ducks and it was very busy not with people but ducks ducklings geese and goslings. Frisky mallards waiting on female ducks, broody mummies sitting on nests, ducklings taking their first plunges into water it was a wonderful time to be out seeing all the water fowl.
Check out these handsome black and white geese, i dont know what they are called but they are very striking. Below a family of Canadian geese taking their new gosling for a walk.
Creatures in the woods
I have myself a lovely new lens that makes me feel like a pap as it is huge long and heavy and extends to give lens envy, so while out taking pics in the woods i hitched on my 500mm and i am so glad Ella has strengthened my arms to be able to hold it with a steady'ish hand to take some pictures of a few of the locals.
We could feel eyes upon us as we walked around and the rustle in the trees as beady black eye silent faces followed us menacingly, wondering what we were up to. There were squirrel gathering and one of them got brave and run down the tree and stood blocking the path ahead of us with one arm to his chest we though he almost looked like he was bowing to us. As quick as he came he was off in the bushes again climbing high up out of our reach.
We decided to take it more silently and came across this dozy bunny resting in the tracks, but 4 year olds roaring whispers soon had him up on his feet and hopping off.
We were even lucky enough to get a glimps of a deer before it scarpered off
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