Bissoe Valley Nature Reserve

Since I started my final year, on 3rd October to be precise, I have been working on a project that will lead me through to the end of my degree, and hopefully get me a decent result at the end of it.  I was originally planning to do a species study on the Red Kites of Britain, looking at their characteristics and habits within their habitats, as I am writing my dissertation on their reintroductions (try not to yawn).  However, with hindsight this was clearly unfeasible for reasons that are unimportant.  Thankfully I realised that and so I am now doing a habitat study of Bissoe Valley Nature Reserve.  It is an old arsenic mine, which was transformed into a nature reserve roughly 20 years ago and has now been left for nature to have its way with.

Why Bissoe?  It's local - in between Falmouth and Truro (7 miles from my house).  Oh yeah, and there's tons of stuff there!  By stuff I mean naturey things, of course - flora, fungi, wildlife, birds, a cracking industrially scarred landscape too and a few ponds.

*Tell me more* I hear you type...

Well, that's the whole point of my photos...check them out and you'll become enlightened.  I have no doubt that from now to May 2012 a lot of the posts on this blog will be about the progress I make during this project.  I just hope you enjoy them and don't get bored because if you're bored, I probably will be to.  I've got a long way to go, and a wealth of ideas to experiment with.

So here's a completely biased selection of what I think are my best shots so far.  Click and view them BIGGER.

Enjoy, and I'd love to here what you think!

Heather

Centaurium erythraea

Amethyst Deceiver

Common Cavalier

Goldcrest

Misty Morning

Stormy Morning Rainbow

Common Toad

P.S. It probably goes without saying that I won't uploading as many photos as this every time, but I've been shooting for about 6 weeks now and if I didn't have at least these 8 photos to show, I'd be worried.

Thanks, James