Wednesdays are usually a long day for me so my Wild Time could get tricky on Wednesday when there is less daylight - I'll be heading off to work as the sun rises and leaving in the dark soon!
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Day 122 - Sunset
A long day at work then a meal out with ex-colleagues left me very little time to spent outdoors but I did manage to catch the sunset and the last light of the day falling over the moorlands, on my way to the pub where we were eating!
Wednesdays are usually a long day for me so my Wild Time could get tricky on Wednesday when there is less daylight - I'll be heading off to work as the sun rises and leaving in the dark soon!
Wednesdays are usually a long day for me so my Wild Time could get tricky on Wednesday when there is less daylight - I'll be heading off to work as the sun rises and leaving in the dark soon!
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Day 121 - An hour in the park
I had time to kill in between finishing work and playing taxi this evening, so had taken a book out with me and planned to sit and read in a nearby park after taking a few photos of nature for my 365 project and for this blog. I ended up spending 45 happy minutes exploring the park and enjoying the sunlight, and having about ten minutes reading time!
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| tar spot fungus |
Monday, 28 September 2015
Day 120 - Perigee Lunar Eclipse
My Wild Time today happened very early in the morning... a bit of astronomy in the form of the perigee lunar eclipse :)
Inconveniently, it happened in the early hours of the morning in the UK! I went to bed at about 11:30, got up at 2:30 and stayed up until 5:15 to look at the moon, before heading back to bed for a couple of hours. It could only have been better if Pa had set up the telescope, that would have been like reliving my childhood! He took some photos too, I haven't seen them but they're probably much better than mine as he has a lot more astro photography experience that I do!
I thought I was going to have a headache all day after an interrupted sleep, but I always feel better after less sleep rather than more and have been fine all day - no more tired than I usually am!
Anyway, I don't think I need to say any more as I'm sure you know about the eclipse already - maybe you were up watching it too?
Here are some of the photos I took... (the first two were actually taken before I went to bed on Sunday night, so are technically from 27th, all the others were taken between 2:45 & 5:15 this morning!)
Total lunar eclipses are not that rare, nor are perigee moons (or what the media go on about as supermoons all the time) but there won't be a perigee total eclipse again for a few years so I'm really glad it was actually clear and I was able to get up and see this one.
Inconveniently, it happened in the early hours of the morning in the UK! I went to bed at about 11:30, got up at 2:30 and stayed up until 5:15 to look at the moon, before heading back to bed for a couple of hours. It could only have been better if Pa had set up the telescope, that would have been like reliving my childhood! He took some photos too, I haven't seen them but they're probably much better than mine as he has a lot more astro photography experience that I do!
I thought I was going to have a headache all day after an interrupted sleep, but I always feel better after less sleep rather than more and have been fine all day - no more tired than I usually am!
Anyway, I don't think I need to say any more as I'm sure you know about the eclipse already - maybe you were up watching it too?
Here are some of the photos I took... (the first two were actually taken before I went to bed on Sunday night, so are technically from 27th, all the others were taken between 2:45 & 5:15 this morning!)
Total lunar eclipses are not that rare, nor are perigee moons (or what the media go on about as supermoons all the time) but there won't be a perigee total eclipse again for a few years so I'm really glad it was actually clear and I was able to get up and see this one.
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Day 119 - A Fungi Foray
Today I was booked on a Fungi Foray with the Eastern Moors Partnership so spent the morning at Birchen Edge (somewhere you'll have seen on my main blog if you read it!)
It was a damp, foggy start to the day but with the promise of sunshine.
This wasn't the best fungi day I've been on, and there wasn't a huge range of fungus but it was still an interesting three hours and I learned a few things and enjoyed my time outdoors.
Well, except for the midges! I've never experienced so many midges (and in the day time) and it seems I was irresistible to them. I've never been nibbled like this before...
Both arms (despite the fact I was wearing long sleeves all day!) and my neck and face are covered in red dots (they don't show up all that well in the photo) where I was bitten. The photo shows just a few! Oh well, they'll soon fade away!
Below is a variety of mushrooms we collected at the beginning of the session including blushers, brown roll rims, russulas, boletes and inkcaps.
This is a cut in half earth ball. I didn't think to photograph the other side at the time as I see these often.
A nice cobweb, plus some birch polypore on the tree...
fly agaric...
Some views on top of Birchen Edge
The mushroom on the left, with the white stalk, is a russula of some sort but I've already forgotten what the other one was!
Other fungus found included grisettes, tawny grisettes, dung roundhead and several more I've forgotten - I should have made a list!
At home, the buddleia was being appreciated by quite a lot of butterflies again. I took this photo of a red admiral. It turned upside down just as I was focusing!
It was a damp, foggy start to the day but with the promise of sunshine.
This wasn't the best fungi day I've been on, and there wasn't a huge range of fungus but it was still an interesting three hours and I learned a few things and enjoyed my time outdoors.
Well, except for the midges! I've never experienced so many midges (and in the day time) and it seems I was irresistible to them. I've never been nibbled like this before...
Both arms (despite the fact I was wearing long sleeves all day!) and my neck and face are covered in red dots (they don't show up all that well in the photo) where I was bitten. The photo shows just a few! Oh well, they'll soon fade away!
Below is a variety of mushrooms we collected at the beginning of the session including blushers, brown roll rims, russulas, boletes and inkcaps.
This is a cut in half earth ball. I didn't think to photograph the other side at the time as I see these often.
A nice cobweb, plus some birch polypore on the tree...
fly agaric...
Some views on top of Birchen Edge
The mushroom on the left, with the white stalk, is a russula of some sort but I've already forgotten what the other one was!
Other fungus found included grisettes, tawny grisettes, dung roundhead and several more I've forgotten - I should have made a list!
At home, the buddleia was being appreciated by quite a lot of butterflies again. I took this photo of a red admiral. It turned upside down just as I was focusing!
Day 118 - Pill bugs
I had a bit of time to kill in Wirksworth this afternoon so spent some time wandering around Stoney Wood....
I found this on a bramble but don't know what it is yet.
There were lots of banded snails around.
Whilst on the ground taking a couple of photos of the eyebright...
I noticed a pill bug crawling past, then spotted a small one rolled up a little further away.
I waited for them to unroll, as they usually do but it didn't happen, so I set them down on a rock and explore a bit more...
Then went back to them. They were still curled up!
But very soon they started to move.
There goes the larger one.
I like that he's so shiny you can see the trees and sky reflected in his body!
The little one never did unroll. I found it as a ball and on closer inspection it seemed to be a little damaged, though it was alive as it did move. I put it back in the grass and left it.
I found this on a bramble but don't know what it is yet.
There were lots of banded snails around.
Whilst on the ground taking a couple of photos of the eyebright...
I noticed a pill bug crawling past, then spotted a small one rolled up a little further away.
I waited for them to unroll, as they usually do but it didn't happen, so I set them down on a rock and explore a bit more...
Then went back to them. They were still curled up!
But very soon they started to move.
There goes the larger one.
I like that he's so shiny you can see the trees and sky reflected in his body!
The little one never did unroll. I found it as a ball and on closer inspection it seemed to be a little damaged, though it was alive as it did move. I put it back in the grass and left it.
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