Bel's Wood

I blogged 'Autumn is here' a few weeks ago.  During October changes have come rapidly. The bracken has begun to glow orange.      After heavy rainfall the road was flooded as the leaves had blocked the drain; it didn't take long to clear. I shall keep working on these as we come into winter. Fungi are flowering on trees and from the ground and the air is thick with their smell.        There have been some sparklingly sunny days where the colours have glowed.  I am still trying to photograph one of my favourite oaks (Gandalf) - impossible to capture these magnificent specimens with a camera but lovely to spend time with them. The full moon with clear skies at night give a lovely setting to see the deer and there has been lots of badger and fox activity. As the rutting season starts, for first time I have seen a red stag coming down onto the wood.  I have tried again putting a camera up a tree to capture footage of birds. Last time I had hundreds of videos of bees! This time