Webs Eye View

Very misty morning on Monday which showed up many of the spiders' webs.
These were taken with the Nikon S9050 looking through webs, processed in Photomatrix Pro using the Grunge Detail Enhancer then cropped in Irfanview:

What is this Bird Song? - Solved

Last July when walking Bobby early morning past a group of trees I  often heard several birds but could never see what was singing. I recorded this one and seem to remember spending ages listening to song files on the net to no avail. More than likely it is a very common bird and with its single rising note once learned it will be easy to recognise in the future.

Blogger refuses to accept the player widget code from eSnips so I wasn't able to embed it in this post but the link should take you straight to the player on their site.

The sound is stored here: BIRD SONG.

Addendum:

My grateful thanks to Joe of Joe's Wildlife Garden (who found me a very similar sound file) and Frank of The Early Birder who both came up with it being a Chaffinch. It seems to be a variation of the Chaffinch 'rain song'. I had filmed a Chaffinch making its rain song in my post Bird Behaviour back in June but by comparison that one sounds as though it had laryngitis.

A few days ago I spotted this web under the bird bath part illuminated by the Sun.

Cobwebs

On misty mornings I am always amazed at just how many cobwebs there are. Hedges are covered with hardly any space between them. Every location, natural or man made, is pressed into use as an anchor point. Most days these marvels of nature go unseen as the gossamer threads blend in with their surroundings. Here are just a few I saw around my garden one misty morning.




Two spiders working closely together or one spider with two webs?





A couple of cable ties have been used as convenient anchor points for this web.



On that morning despite the number of cobwebs there were I only saw one spider. Here the subtle colouring of even a common spider only shows when you get close to it.