THE RETURN OF THE WANDERING MAN

After a somewhat lengthy hiatus ... I am back.

I can only apologise for my absence in this areas as I was more of less attacked by a couple of evil publis services throughout last year. The details of which are really for my corruption blog, are referred to in posts there and will be revealed in a few months time.

I will also state that I am almost back to full fitness, for doing these things and getting these things as I have to be able to cycle around 25 miles each time I go out.

I first lost a great deal of weight and then without realising it and as I had fought back from the brink of somewhere dark I then put a load of weight on without realising it.

I then ended up in hospital, or a couple of hospitals even, last year and then a couple of times this year, in no thanks to these evil public services in the UK. It turns out that one of said hospitals made a serious mistake in February, just gone, according to another hospital as I was taken into A&E and seen three times like bloody lightning, having loads tests and my blood pressure testing quite high.

As I pointed out to a very nice A&E Doctor there who was worried about my diastolic blood pressure being at 110, it was 121 before I left the house and I can tell you this ...

If the heart palpitations and chest pains were indeed down to my blood pressure then it has been a damned site higher than the 197/121 that I tested before leaving to go to A&E! Several times too!

Anyway ...

Not only am I back ... again but I am going to have a very good 12 months starting from today ... as I am already back out filming had to get mountain bike repaired too another fiasco. Not only am I back out filming but I also have two major things that have been going on. Well .. I mean other than the damned health issues I have two major things.

Two good things.

Both of these will mean vast increases in videos and photographs in ALL subjects, including some blogs that have been somewhat ... neglected but are close to my heart. No I am not talking about palpitations again! Lol.

There will be a vast increase in tools acquired and I cannot emphasise how vast this is.

Added to this there will be vast increases in frequency, quality and quantity and my range will vastly increases and soon enough to ranges that will surprise a lot of people.

These will take place throughout the rest of 2017 starting in about a month or so's time and continue throughout 2018 too and sky is the limit from then on in.

Although both things are inevitable, there is no one that can disappear and/or stab me in the back this time as took place a year ago.

So here are a few things I recently filmed while out ...

Some English Primroses at Forty Hall ..

An uncommon video of a Heron Preening, probably just after it ate a dozen of my mates, the frogs lol.. Hook Marsh Scrape ... if I have the name in the right order? Lol

A Young Greylag that had me stumped ... well it was very far away, lol ...

Good old Gadwalls ..

Three videos of Teal and a few others .. at Marsh Scrape Hooks

Some Shoveler Ducks.. at Hooks Scrape Marsh lol

FIRST BUTTERFLIES OF 2016

Well I have managed to get a head start and ahead of replacing my outdoor camera with a new one, video of that coming up.

Last year was pretty dire for photographs, filming, getting out on my bike much and mostly due to the weather and partly because I was spending a lot of time and money helping someone close to me, see my corruption blog on that one.

So I am short several tools.

Towards the end of last year and around the autumn time my trusty Sony Cybershot DSC-HX300 with its 50x zoom lens took a tumble or five. Off a contraption attached to my belt because something came undone on the bottom of the camera. A small brass nipple if you must know.

At first I was relieved because a few quick tests and the camera was working fine. Unfortunately the next few times I went out where I did long shots or filming, of birds mostly, and I noticed lesser quality in the photos and vibration on filming.

Oops!

Anyway, just prior to purchasing the new camera I did get out with the Sony and did capture a few things.

Holly Blue Butterflies, Brimstone Butterflies, an Orange Tip Butterfly and some Wild Primroses ...

SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHID - (Dactylorhiza praetermissa)

Somewhat late appearing, being 27th May, and curiously bunched together and with no appearance of the Early Marsh Orchid, or Bee Orchids for that matter, here are a neatly bunched group of the British Orchid the ...

Southern Marsh Orchid ...

A selection of the surrounding flora ...

Ah now if you can see it, or them rather, in the pictures above and below those dots, or green blobs, you can see everywhere...those are the Primrose seed heads.

Those peculiar few orange and red flowered ones have a few bunches on the far right, on the line of bushes. Plus a couple not far off the centre, just a little to the right and towards the camera lens.

VIDEO OF RED AND ORANGE ENGLISH PRIMROSES

LOL!

Those red and orange Primroses the video of which I forgot to post up here.

A Bumble Bee on a Primrose.

THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART THREE (Primula veris) RED

After spotting hundreds of Primroses, Primula veris, were there had been NONE previously and then spotting ORANGE ONES I look around and start seeing RED ONES?!

Now this followed a couple of very curious events on what was a day out getting photographs and videos that I will get into over the next few days with posts. That is AFTER I have finicshed this Cowslip Conundrum series of which there is still yet more to come ...

 

THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART ONE (Primula veris)

This post is part of a four part series that will all be posted over the following 24 hours.

It will also be a cross-over with another blog and the area in question, which will remain secret, has been revealing some very, VERY curious secrets eve since I first visited the place 5 years ago.

Now before you study these photographs as well as the following posts you need to understand that I am up here a hell of a lot which includes 3 or 4 times a week in warmer months as well as in Winter when the lakes and ponds are frozen over.