Tuesday 2 October 2018

Autumnal Colour in the Dells

Today is the last day of our staycation, but I persuaded Crafty Green Boyfriend to come along with me to patrol the Dells along the Water of Leith, which I do almost every week. (It's a lovely place for a walk so he didn't need that much persuasion.)

The autumn colours are starting to come through beautifully


and the sunshine brought out the late hoverflies including this Syrphus sp on bindweed which seems to be one of their favourite flowers and also one of the nicest backdrops for a photo of a hoverfly

 and this Syrphus sp on ivy which is a great food source for hoverflies and other pollinators late in the season (which is a good argument for not removing ivy!)

Autumn is of course a great season for fungi and we were delighted by this display on the top of a dead tree stump


Plenty of birds around too, though mostly they were camera shy.

Crafty Green Boyfriend took the fungi photos in this post.


3 comments:

eileeninmd said...

Hello, love the cute mushrooms. Lovely series of photos. Enjoy your day and week ahead!

Simon Douglas Thompson said...

Lovely archway! The big white funnel of the bindweed funnel is indeed an ideal backdrop, highlight colour in the subject, and makes it easier to focus on.

Lowcarb team member said...

Yes, the autumn colours are really starting to come through beautifully, lovely photographs.

All the best Jan