Photo Blog Week 64 - Wed 21 April 2015
Back in the Park after a break to see family overseas and it is amazing how much green has appeared and specks of colour are appearing as yellow lesser celandine and white wood sorrel flowers emerge.Photo-less Patrol
Well, this is embarrassing. I may as well me honest as to why I have no patrol photographs to share with you this week. It seems that a Fuji Finepix S2400 still responds to the shutter button with a satisfying click even when the memory card has not been put back in!A warning message is displayed in the view finder and I can only think that a combination of a very bright sunny day, my contact lenses which leave me needing reading glasses (which I was not wearing) for close work and chatting to Martin who I was giving a tour all conspired to me not noticing the message banner.
All the more annoying as I thought I had a few good photos of a group of Stags some with last year's antlers intact, some with new growth and one with a single antler. The Red Deer shed there antlers at this time and immediately commence growth of a new set ready for the rut in October/November.
Furniture Survey
I am currently helping out with photographing and GPS tagging all the gates, stiles etc in the Park and I did some, on a different camera, before and after my patrol so here are a few gateways with nice backgrounds on this lovely sunny day.
Looking into the formal gardens from in front of The Stables
Brilliant yellow is Forsythia
Old gateway looking out from the Orangery courtyard
Gateway to the North Face of the House
Millpond with Turtle Brew behind sign post
Knightslow Wood at the head of Lyme Avenue
One of three stone foot bridges in Knightslow Wood along Hampers Wood boundary
Lower stock fence gateway on the Moor with Sponds Hill in the distance.
Gate removed to storage whilst there are no cattle on the Moor
Stock fence middle gateway
The stock fence is for cattle management and runs parallel to and East of the Bowstonegate track
Bowstonegate track entering Knightslow Wood
This was the film location for the Trespass scene in The Village
Leaving Knightslow Wood and entering Drinkwater Meadow
Looking back to Drinkwater Meadow from the Main Car Park
Today's track and profile (Patrol, not Survey)
I also left my GPS behind in the car so this is retraced from memory.
total: 6.2 miles (10 km) 4 hr 30 min
This Time Last Year
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