#ScenicSaturday 9th September 2023

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography

My photos in this continuing series show our beautiful world. I hope to encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness. Today, we have a shot taken on one of our walks through the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. This is one of our regular routes to access different places in the extensive woodland. Here, the tall pines and firs border a trail along the contours of a hill. The place is usually peaceful, serene, and we are occasionally privileged to come across some of the wildlife that lives in the forest. We see several different types of deer, wild boar, grey squirrels, buzzards, goshawks, many songbirds, and now the forest also sports a few beavers and some recently introduced pine martens. It’s a great place to commune with the natural world.

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7 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 9th September 2023”

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    1. It is, Noelle. Our current temperatures have been in heatwave mode for 7 days and we, too, are expecting that to end in thunderstorms soon. We’re also getting a generous coating of sand from the Sahara at present thanks to the weather!

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    1. A few weeks ago, Lynette, we exited from a narrow path through some head-high bracken into this place and stood to watch a small family of wild boar feed before they realised we were there and then took off. Typically, I didn’t have my camera with me at the time, only my phone, and they were too distant to capture on that!

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      1. Those opportunities are so precious, Stuart, but I understand about not having your camera along. I sometimes only have my cell and it does have a zoom that works to a very limited extent, but nothing like my Canon. Isn’t that the way?

        A few weeks back I had a lovely swallowtail butterfly flitting among my hanging plants, and the immediately available camera was my cell. The pictures I took are okay, but it’s too bad my good camera wasn’t nearby. On the other hand, sometimes it’s just best to enjoy the scene without scrambling to try to record it. Cheers.

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