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Grey Squirrel / sciurus carolinensis. Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire. 25/01/16.
When I'm watching wildlife and making images I usually find that I'm being watched closely too!
Taken using the sunset feature and rotated half a degree but otherwise as the camera captured the scene over the Nottinghamshire landscape
Have you ever made a big effort to get to a location, only to find that you left your SD card out of your camera? That happened to me yesterday evening when I arrived at Shipley Country Park with the intention of photographing the bluebell woods in low evening sun. I found this out just after paying £3.50 for my parking ticket as well. So my next move was to drive all the way back to Ilkeston Tesco and buy an SD card. I just managed to get back in time for half an hour of photography. The moral of the story for me: ALWAYS carry a spare SD card in my kit bag!
First visit to Mapperley Wood for the Jays. E-M1 MKII/100-400mm.
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Eurasian Nuthatch / sitta europaea. Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire. 20/01/16.
An image made long ago of a Nuthatch in some gorgeous winter light. Smart, nimble and always a pleasure to watch. I've started to hear them calling locally.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
The infamous 'Crap Stack' of Mapperley Tunnel.
The stack is an accumulation of over 50 years' worth of flytipped rubbish that has been thrown down the No.2 ventilation shaft. Somehow, it has defied gravity for all these years and continues to amaze locals and urban explorers who visit the tunnel.
From the hide in Mapperley Wood Reserve.
I prefer to have a glint of light in the eye - I feel that it makes the subject more alive; but here I felt that the tongue detail was too good to miss.
08528 hauls empties from Toton to the pipe works at Stanton along the 'Mapperley Goods Branch', approaching Stanton Gate on 23rd July 1997.
St. Giles' church, Sandiacre is seen on the hill.
Stanton Gate, 28th April 1987.
47324 heads north on fuel tankers.
(Some wires crossing the sky removed in PS).
Comparing this scene with today, there is no signal box, or buildings on the right.
Next, the fan of sidings has been lifted, and the lighting towers removed.
The rusty line next to the train is the Mapperley Goods branch, which goes into the Stanton Works site.
The goods lines to the left, and 99% of the view of Stapleford behind are hidden by trees.
The annoying thing is that the lone lamp post just in front of the 47 is still there!!!
A rare run out for me on the Lilac side of town first off is 24s which would then turn into a 26A but with schools off this run was cancelled.
A misty morning in Sherwood, taken from Woodthorpe Park, looking towards Mapperley Rise / Cresta Gardens.
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Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is one of the largest remaining municipal bus companies and is regarded as one of the best operators in the UK. In the early 1960’s City of Nottingham Transport as it was then developed a very strong corporate identity with an attractive “two tone” green livery and its own distinct standard double deck bus body. specification for rear engined, front loading buses. However in early 1981 they deviated somewhat from this standardization by purchasing ten Leyland Atlantean AN68C chassis fitted with Roe H46/34F bodies that were a mix of standard Roe and the Nottingham specification. These ten vehicles were given fleet numbers 471 – 480 and here is four month old 477 (NNN 477W) standing the city centre working route 62 to Mapperley, 8th July 1981. On disposal from Nottingham it passed to Marshalls of Sutton on Trent and would later join Longthorne of Leadenham for further service. Rumour has it that it's final resting place is a museum in Thailand,
Praktica LTL, Kodachrome 64
Class 09 No.09201 brings a load of gift-wrapped pipes from Stanton Works to Toton yard through Stanton Gate on 15th October 1996.
The line it's using is known as the Mapperley Goods Branch, a separate track which doesn't connect with the rest of the network until Stapleford & Sandiacre.
Hopefully we will see traffic using this line again when the new Stanton Park development is complete.
Eurasian Jay / garrulus glandarius. Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire. 25/01/17.
'BACK IN THE DAY.'
A wintertime Jay, captured in the last rays of afternoon sunlight. An image made back in January, 2017 with my trusty Nikon D3S.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
View looking across to Porchester Gardens. The area was deeply mined for clay for brick-making, and then became a huge area of allotments, before being built on. On the horizon is the old Mapperley Hospital, a psychiatric hospital, which is now an NHS administration centre.
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I've only got the confirmation from one of the staff here that this had been a petrol station, although this was a long time ago.
Only a totem pole stands from the petrol station days, the garage has been Porchester Auto Centre all throughout street view era.
Google street view 2008
www.google.com/maps/place/PORCHESTER+AUTO+CENTRE/@52.9807...
Wood Anemone / anemone nemorosa. Mapperley Wood, Derbyshire. 23/04/18.
Deeply flushed pink variants of the Wood Anemone are always a welcome sight to my eyes. They add a lovely colourful element amid carpets of white flowers. I find photographing them irresistible - even ones like this little gem that had peaked its full glory and was developing brown spots.