Trails Eastwards
Sunday, 15. November 2009, 22:08:47
The storm has blown itself to pieces, but the roads have turned into rivers in its wake 
Even so, I've been out travelling today to my old haunts in Norfolk
spending a while wandering around the soaked campus of the University of East Anglia.
This big peninsula is largely rural - a strange mixture of marshland and arable farms, although other habitats aren't lacking - and there's always some wildlife to be seen, especially around the university. Rabbits have been the focus of a long term study here. Any wildlife photographer who goes to the UEA and doesn't see a rabbit can consider themselves exceedingly unlucky...
Meanwhile, the squirrels are sorting the leaves and nuts...
As are jays.
I think these are largest shaggy ink caps that I've ever seen
These strange fungi self-dissolve after dropping spores, gradually changing shape from a neat bell-like form to a tall, relatively "normal" mushroom appearance
But where there are students, one might find even stranger wildlife on the loose. I didn't really expect to find a spider the size of my hand sitting on the lawn 
I imagine that it is probably a refugee from a Halloween prank
It hasn't rained today, but the land still has a tired, wintry, washed-out feel, and yet more heavy downpours are forecast for this week.
Lights from the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames
Even so, I've been out travelling today to my old haunts in Norfolk
spending a while wandering around the soaked campus of the University of East Anglia. This big peninsula is largely rural - a strange mixture of marshland and arable farms, although other habitats aren't lacking - and there's always some wildlife to be seen, especially around the university. Rabbits have been the focus of a long term study here. Any wildlife photographer who goes to the UEA and doesn't see a rabbit can consider themselves exceedingly unlucky...
Meanwhile, the squirrels are sorting the leaves and nuts...
As are jays.
I think these are largest shaggy ink caps that I've ever seen
These strange fungi self-dissolve after dropping spores, gradually changing shape from a neat bell-like form to a tall, relatively "normal" mushroom appearance
But where there are students, one might find even stranger wildlife on the loose. I didn't really expect to find a spider the size of my hand sitting on the lawn
I imagine that it is probably a refugee from a Halloween prank
It hasn't rained today, but the land still has a tired, wintry, washed-out feel, and yet more heavy downpours are forecast for this week.
Lights from the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge over the Thames
a varied and surprisingly lonely landscape...
and startled myself with the outcome 
But I think it's worth noting that none of our wild mammals compare in biomass to the number of livestock in Britain. I've excluded their populations and weights from the above figures, because they'd just knock everything (...except rabbits) off the page.
so here's another thrush whom I photographed in my front garden:
WIDGETIZE