13/05/2011 Pendennis, Falmouth

Weather: Sunny with cloudy skies
Temp: 12oc
Vis:4/5 metres

MNHP L1 students went for a dive down at Pendennis. I was a little apprehensive as most people are at a beginning of a dive. Dreading to get into that cold, wet, ripped worn wetsuit, trying to get the booties on, lugging the BCD and tank on my back and weight belt on my hips, underwater camera and housing in one hand, fins, mask and snorkle in the other, down the steap rocky steps of doom is where you will find me at my most unattractive state!
But once I was in the water, had finally got my fins, snorkle, mask and dive gloves on I was finally engulfed into the underwater world and was loving it once again.
The water was cold and crisp, very clear. I saw alot of fauna as soon as I was submersed.
Sightings of pipe fish, spider crabs, common juvenile star fish,  spiney star fish and snakes lot.

Spider crab Libinia emarginata

Seaweed Long exposure

Juvenile starfish Asterias rubens

Spiney starfish Marthasterias glacialis

 

                             Snakeslot                

Seascape

16/11/2010 Walled Garden

Weather: Mild, rainy, cloudy with sunny spells
Temp: 12oc

I took a stroll around the walled garden, it was a crisp fresh autumn afternoon. I noticed these beautiful autumn coloured Rhododenron leaves. A mixture of red, pink and orange and yellow caused from lack of sunlight and chlorophyll. These leaves reminded me of the beaks of a Toucan bird that lives in the rainforest.

Rhododenron leaves

12/05/2011 Perranaworthal wood

Weather: Blue skies, and occasional cloud with sunshine in between.
Temp: 14oc
Wind: 12 mph

I stumbled upon this woodland area scattered with bluebells. What a lovely sight it was.
Location: Between Penryn and Perranaworthal.

Brough a Hassleblad medium format camera with me to photograph a chosen area of this woodland.

I was surrounded my a range of different species. (see bellow for images and names)

Blushing waxcap Hygroybe ovina

Yellow feildcap Bolbitius titubans

Garden snail Helix aspersa

Blue bells and Spider Hyacinthnoide and Araneus diadenatus

Lichen Parmelia caperata

12/02/2011 Devoran Village

Chosen Habitat.
Location: On the way to Truro.

Devoran has a significant history that played a major part in the copper and tin mining industry, was home to Cornwalls busiest Mineral port in 1838.

Weather: Sunny, warm, not much wind.
Observations: Green, lots of shrubbery, noticed quite afew plants and flowers such as daffodiles, snow drops, arm lillies, common gorse and many others. I have taken pond water samples and hope to look at this under the microscope to find out what is living in the small stream running through the marshland surrounded by woody area. Again, sightings of sparrows, robins, and ravens.
Image taken bellow is of the pond right by Devoran layby, taken on a large format (5x4) feild camera.

Pond at Devoran layby

11/02/2011 Tremough, Penryn

Weather: Overcast, damp, mild, slight showers.

I took out a 500mm and a 105mm macro lens from the stores. Simlpy went round campus, walked around the walled garden to photograph the early signs of spring. Buds, shoots and new plants starting to appear from the ground, snow drops already in full flower and up from the garden I sat under the hut. I put out some bird seed and waited. Birds surrounded and swooped down in turns, robins blue tits and sparrows. The domiant robin now and then showing who's boss and marking his territory. Got some close up shots of the robin.

15/01/2011 Loe Pool/ Bar

National Trust.
It is separated from the sea by the single bank of Loe Bar, situated midway between Porthleven and Gunwalloe.
Walked around 6 miles around Loe pool itself, home to a miriad of habitats such as sand dunes, marshlands, grassland, heathland, woodland and the pond itself.
Walked to Loe bar, and the swell was pretty high. Rough huge waves crashing down.

Weather: Mild, Grey and overcast.

Sightings of common water fowl: Mute swan, herron, herring guls.
Observations: Scarse amount of plants and flowers, saw some shoots and afew different species of mushroom and fungi:
Common earthball,
Scarlet cup (Sarcoscypha coccinca)
King alfred's cake (Dadinia concentria)

King Alfred's cake Daldinia concentria

Scarlet cup Sarcoscypha coccinca

Loe bar

13/01/2011 Trebah Garden

Another Nation Trust owned sight.

Weather: Sunny with a chill in the air.

Home to many plants and tress such as monkey puzzles, sequoia and common oaks.
No sightings of flowering plants as it is middle/end of winter, however I did see the odd sign of spring here and there with sprouting grass shoots bursting through leaf litter and snow drops starting to appear.

Sat outside the cafe, having my lunch with my friends and the rest of the class. Birds would come right up close and hang around for abit, you can tell they are used to the public as they are quite confident and daring. Birds such as the robin, blue titm sparrows, finches and  wagtails.

Robin redbreast Erithacus rubecula

Heart stem

Leaf