A walk in Bernate - Lanca di Bernate Ticino - Ticino River (Eng/Ita)

[ENG]
As published in one of my @actifit posts I went with family for a walk in Bernate Ticino at the protected area called Lanca di Bernate.
Lanca is a so called oxbow lake that is generated when an arm of the river separate and loose connection with ther main riverbed.

Is well known by photographer because of the great biodiversity with lot of wildlife and is good for macro photography too.

Of course walking with family I tend to use a lens or two to avoid overload because usually I already have my sone on his backpack. This time I decided for the standard 24-70 and 70-200.

After parking we followed th path until the Celtic Calendar:

A carved stone that indicates our patron tree depending on our birth day.
In my case (and 2 of my children) is the elder tree

Check next picture to discover your:

Unfortunately the bridge over the river that leads to the Lanca's path is broken and due to lockdown maintenance was not done during spring as usual.
So we decided to go on the shore of Ticino to refresh ourself in a bathing area and played all together

The river is the habitat for a lot of species and we spotted black dragonfly and frogs (can you see them?)

And a funny otter swimming and fishing

Coming back to the car I took some other picture:

Green Dragonflies

a huge grasshopper

a young dragonfly

a cabbage butterfly

grain is growing slowly this year

Ladybug fly over the grain

My young photographer experiencing with macro

A very good day, in a very beautiful place really close to home.

All picture are mine, took with some difficult (Ludovico never stops 😁) and with standard lens (no macro)

I hope you like the place and enjoy pictures.

[ITA]
In uno dei miei post @actifit avevo accennato ad una giornata sul fiume Ticino nella zona protetta chiamata Lanca di Bernate.
Una lanca è un ramo morto del fiume che si è separato dall'alveo principale e che crea, quindi, una zona stagnante.

La zona è conosciuta dai fotografi per la grande biodiversità, per la presenza di molti animali selvaggi, ed è anche frequentata dagli amanti della macro.
Ovviamente, essendo io giro con la famiglia cerco di stare leggero anche perchè di solito ho il piccolo nello zaino portabibmbi per cui sono uscito con gli standard 24-70 e 70-200.

Le foto sono tutte di mia proprietà, scattate con qualche difficoltà visto che Ludovico non sta mai fermo, e senza lenti macro.
Evito di riportare le descrizioni delle foto e spero che il posto vi piaccia