Monthly Archives: October 2020

Six on Saturday – Happy Halloween

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Of course it being Halloween I have to start with the pumpkins this week. Not home grown this year, but kids made good job with their carvings all the same.

There is also a full moon tonight. Not the best of photos, but this is it through the trees.

  • Perfect Halloween full moon

We had some gales earlier with Storm Aiden, leaving most of the remaining leaves on the ground.

  • wet leaves

However, I did manage to get a photo of the dogwood yesterday before the storm arrived (it is pretty much stripped bare now).

  • Dogwood

And the field maple, which always goes a lovely yellow shade too.

  • Maple

We have also started feeding the birds again too. Here a blue tit, coal tit and great tit all sharing.

  • Busy bird feeder

So wishing you all a very Happy All Hallows Eve. And special thanks to The Propagator for hosting six on Saturday.

Lens-Artists Challenge #120 – What A Treat!

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Here in Ireland, we find ourselves in lockdown again. So we have to stay within 5km of our homes. So for this week’s lens artist challenge it was a case of heading back over the year’s photos and seeing what types of treats there were.

Seeing and being able to photograph wildlife is always a treat for me.

  • bumblebee on knapweed
  • White butterfly on verbena
  • Tortoiseshell on scabious
  • Male bullfinch enjoying dandelion seeds
  • grasshopper

Six on Saturday – 17th October 2020

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This week it is all about leaves.

  1. Birch leaves – the leaves are fast disappearing from the birch trees.
  • birch leaf

2. America hawthorn. Bigger leaves than our native hawthorn, and bigger berries too, though there was no berries this year.

  • American hawthorn

3. Crab apples are looking nice now especially as the leaves are turning yellow.

  • crab apples

4. Lime tree leaves also go a lovely shade of yellow.

  • Lime tree

5. Rowan leaves. Redder leaves. The rowan in the garden has actually lost all it’s leaves already, this one is in the field below the house.

  • Rowan leaves

6. And finally oak leaves, one of my favourite trees.

  • oak

Thank you to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday.

Autumn Walk

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We love to go for walks and I have many to choose from, for this week’s lens-artist photo challenge – photo walk. I decided to share a recent walk along the little roads near Ballintubber, Co Mayo. The first thing that was obvious was all the berries.

Some end of summer honeysuckle still remained.

  • Honeysuckle

We were also saw some geese flying overhead.

  • Geese

Curious cattle in the fields.

  • Cattle

And some hoverfiles.

  • Hoverfily

And butterflies.

  • Butterfly

And finally enjoyed the lovely views.

Six on Saturday – 3rd October 2020

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October and things are looking autumnal – so some autumn leaves to start.

  1. Chokeberry leaves
  • Chokeberry leaves

2.  Medlar leaves – no fruit on it at all this year.

  •  medlar

3.  Szechuan pepper, pretty leaves but no fruit on this one either this year!

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4. And finally a success – well if you can call three pears successful!

  • Pear

5. And some decent sized onions.

  • Red and white onions

6. And finally this week elderberries, which grow wild in our local hedgerows and they are having a good year, with plenty fruit.

  • Elderberries

Thank you to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday.