Sunset over San Francisco Bay

From Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Berkeley, Nov 27 2015

One of those staggering sights which blows my brain clean and leaves me dazzled with light!

Golden Gate Bridge

Oakland Bay Bridge

Pano on the phone cam.

Same place, different season

Kingfisher

Kingfisher by the Welland, photo cropped and enlarged.  Very pleased to get the shot.

Playing with the phone cam

Panorama

Seven cygnets swimming

An unusually large brood, seven cygnets, now the size of their parents.  They arrived in orderly fashion, in single file, with one parent ahead and one behind . . .

 In turn they looked up as the camera clicked when they emerged from under the bridge . . .

 Papa stretched his wings .

 All found plenty of weed to feed on in the old mill pool . 

Finally they left in convoy as they arrived.

The swans have been luckier than the dead sheep lying at the bottom of the weir, bloated and with legs in the air.

Minibeasts - cinnabar caterpillars and spider

Cinnabar moth caterpillars on ragwort. August.

Spider and web on hydrangea in the garden

Rabbits

Goldenacre park one rainy morning

Along the track, butterflies etc.

I set out to take photos rather than just walk, but butterflies are tricky, and I haven't enough patience.

Comma co-operating by posing

One of those confusing brownish critters

and a different one

not a butterfly

Loosestrife or willow herb?

A swimming goose

I love the nonchalantly trailing feet

A few random flowers

Poppies

Flowers and tortoiseshell at Belton House

Belton House Orangery

Green  man

Agapanthus

I think this was labelled as "pineapple plant"

The flowers in more detail

Light and shade and general lushness