RHS Tatton Show 2010

Mostly cloudy this year with some light rain, but I managed to get a few shots - there are more on the title link to the BBC page, taken by other visitors.

Chester Raft Race 2010

Not as many pics this year owing to having a water gun in one hand and a rucksack of flour bombs in the other, and having to prise our way through far too many spectators and CSOs on the Dee Bridge!
Many thanks to the Rotary Club and Friends of the Meadows, and to the sporting rafters who took the time and trouble to soak all the kids at the yacht club - they LOVED it!! see y'all next year

The usual suspects...

Summer 2010

Some interesting sightings recently - beautiful yellow dragonfly and an ichneumons wasp.
Great shot of a corona on one particularly hot day, too.

... but there's only one coot chick left out of the original nine, and only one grebe chick too. One of the parent swans is also missing.

Sole survivor

This little chap is all that's left after the swan's nest was disturbed recently...

Astbury Mere during Maytime

Some pictures from around the Mere this month.

Beltane at Thornborough Henge

Dating back 5,500 years, the enormous 3-circle Thornborough Henge deserves recognition & inclusion as an integral part of our national heritage.


Drummers at the henge

Cheshire with peaceful skies

There has been no air traffic for 2 days due to the upper air being full of volcanic dust, ash & glass particles from the Eyjafjallajokul eruption, Iceland. Nothing - just spectacularly clear, peaceful, blue skies.

Slight 'smog'-like haze to the sky after sunset - with the sun turning a particularly intense shade of red. [Photo taken from Mow Cop.]