Category Archives: Nature

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.