A walk in the Raby Estate

[cmcmck]

The Raby Estate is a stretch of local managed woodland.

A view across the fields from Ercall Woods showing that Autumn really is on the way:



The last of the rosebay willowherb- most of it is now seeding:



With the dry weather and local farmers needing to water, Ercall Pool is a long way down:



More signs of Autumn:



And more still:



That old shed lost in the woods has become even more ramshackle since we last passed this way!



The Raby Estate is part  coniferous woodland:



And part deciduous:



The fern is beginning to turn:



Over towards the long Mynd and the Caradocs from Spout Lane:



An old locally made drinking trough being used for flowers:



Wenlock Edge from Spout Lane:



A large and rather splendid rowan:



The Ercall from Wrekin Farm lane:



A death cap fungus:



More Autumn colours:



And the path home:



I have to admit that I'm very much enjoying my new camera. I eventually went for another Sony,the A6000 mirrorless with a rather sweet little Zeiss zoom lens.

Comments

[rodo]

Wow! I really like the composition in the first two pictures!

[cmcmck]

Things are just there, so I just take pics! :o)

[pameladean]

Thank you for this lovely treat! That's a great rowan, and the death's-cap mushroom is quite alarming as well as beautiful.

P.

[cmcmck]

The red is a warning- they are highly toxic.

[davidgillon]

Confused me for a moment as that's not the Raby Estate I was expecting ;)

(Raby Castle is in Durham, near Staindrop and I usually drive past it a few times a year when visiting the family. In fact we used to get our Christmas trees from there when we were kids).

[cmcmck]

The Raby family seem to own a lot of property through the Midlands and north. There's a Christmas tree plantation among this woodland.

[yourlibrarian]

It's certainly taking some very nice photos! When I bought a new camera two years ago I debated over all sorts of models and ended up with a newer version of my same kind of camera. Not sorry about it either.

[cmcmck]

I've always like Sony for their abilities in poor light which matters when you have a tendency to ferret about in the darker corners of churches and the like.

[adafrog]

Great pics. Thanks.

[cmcmck]

Y're welcome!

[imhilien]

Very nice. :)

[cmcmck]

Glad you enjoyed.

[ndrosen]

The landscapes are appreciated.

[cmcmck]

It's wonderful to live among landscapes like these.

[sparowe]

Beautiful, thank you. :)

[cmcmck]

You are most welcome. :o)

[recently_folded]

Rosebay willowherb! Here in Alaska we call that fireweed (because it fills in first after a wildfire). Our fireweed is at about that same stage as yours. I was out picking wild blueberrries last week and had to climb a bank covered with it and ended up simply coated with the white seed fluff till I looked like some sort of especially disgraceful cat.

[cmcmck]

It's also known as fireweed here as it grew all over bombsights during WW2. Also known as London Pride for the same reason.

That and clematis (old man's beard) tend to cover you if you get too close.

[evergreenspire]

I am stuck at home in quarantine, so extra happy to see these beautiful pictures.

❤️

[cmcmck]

Glad to be of help.

We went through that back in April having had to attend a family funeral so you have my sympathy!

Hope you get over it without to many nasties.