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Dinton Pastures

Dinton Pastures

Yesterday was my first weekend day off work in months that didn’t already have a plan attached to it. When the weather turned out to be nice, we decided to go for a walk to Dinton Pastures.

Dinton Pastures

Everybody else seemed to have had the same idea, so we had to park miles away in the overflow car park. This turned out to be good, as we walked a corner of the park that we hadn’t really seen before.

Dinton Pastures

I spent ages trying to get the perfect shot of a bee hovering on one of these flowers, but my camera wasn’t quick enough to keep up. So I had to make do with this picture of a bumble bee’s bum instead.

Dinton Pastures

I came home with some souvenirs –  a few photos, a touch of sunburn, and eight (at the last count) insect bites. Ouch!

Geese at Dinton Pastures

Egyptian Goose

This afternoon we took the cameras for a walk around Dinton Pastures.

I was only happy with a few photos of the fifty or so that I took, but it was Paul’s turn with the 300mm lens, so I played around with the 200mm. I lost quite a few pictures to the very shallow depth of field – they would have been lovely shots if only the focus had been in the right place.

We did see a coot and a swan happily installed on their nests, so hopefully we’ll be able to go back and have a look at the chicks in a few weeks’ time.