I purposefully arrived at Bissoe while it was still dark so I could set up and be ready for when the wildlife arrived. Unfortunately it didn't. Well, the wildlife I was expecting didn't and wildlife I wasn't expecting did. At about 8am I saw a fox staring at me. Needless to say it ran off quickly but it gives me hope of getting shots of a new species. Later I scared a Dunlin away. It ended up being a very productive 6 hour shoot.
I tried focus-stacking the Wrinkled Club specimens again with much better light conditions this time. It is made up of 15 photographs. I got down to ground level so the background would become blurred as it was too far from the point of focus. As I didn't have access to a suitable macro lens, I used a 70-200mm with extension tubes to get close enough to fill the frame with the fungi, which incidentally is only about 3-4cm tall.
As I was walking round the reserve during sunrise looking for things to photograph I passed one of the reed beds. It was quite a misty morning and when the sun came out, behind the reeds, it lit them beautifully, highlighting the dew on the branches behind them too.
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