Macro Day at Brockholes NWT

[Bilbo_baggin]

A slug eating fungus - not what I expected to find when I went out today looking to photograph toadstools and mushrooms...


Then there was tale of the snails - like miniature ones you find on the beach - with long shells rather than round shells...


I also found some black fungus - turns out this is called "King Alfred's Cakes"...


I found a nice mushroom lit by a patch of sunlight and there was a little froglet too, on a fallen moss-covered log. He was posing nicely, but soon hopped off.


Then lastly on the way out, on a fence, another common red darter dragonfly. Nice eyes and chops on these...


Oh, and when I got home, the wife had found a sawfly - first time I've managed to get a shot of one these - probably a male Tenthredo atra (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae).


Not a bad day to spend an hour or two with the macro lens at Brockholes Nature Reserves.








































Paul.

[supraman54]

Great stuff.. my monday morning nature walk ..

cheers

supe

[dpSparhawk]

Weird and Wonderful series Paul

Love the first Frog one. Odd angle kinda works for me. I'd have still salted the fucking slug though

[Bilbo_baggin]

Great stuff.. my monday morning nature walk ..

cheers

supe

Weird and Wonderful series Paul

Love the first Frog one. Odd angle kinda works for me. I'd have still salted the fucking slug though

Cheers lads


Paul.