Your day's wildlife

[coffeejo]

@Hill Wimp and I went to RSPB Ham Wall and Westhay Moor Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels yesterday morning (we were there for 7am!) and despite a rookie error when I picked up my lenses but not the camera and had to run back for it, managed to get a few decent shots - though a better zoom lens is required if this becomes a habit.

A very hungry caterpillar

Damselflies

Damselfy

Damselfly

Great Crested Grebe

Ahem!

Ladybird

 

[biggs682]

@Hill Wimp and I went to RSPB Ham Wall and Westhay Moor Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels yesterday morning (we were there for 7am!) and despite a rookie error when I picked up my lenses but not the camera and had to run back for it, managed to get a few decent shots - though a better zoom lens is required if this becomes a habit.

A very hungry caterpillar
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Damselflies
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Damselfy
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Great Crested Grebe
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Ahem!
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Ladybird
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wow fantastic pics well done

 

[Dave 123]

@Hill Wimp and I went to RSPB Ham Wall and Westhay Moor Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels yesterday morning (we were there for 7am!) and despite a rookie error when I picked up my lenses but not the camera and had to run back for it, managed to get a few decent shots - though a better zoom lens is required if this becomes a habit.

A very hungry caterpillar
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Damselflies
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Damselfy
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Great Crested Grebe
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Ahem!
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Ladybird
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The beetle sex pic is really good.
The one on top used to be painfully shy. It's good to see him coming out of his shell.

Sorry, couldn't resist it! Great pics!

 

[coffeejo]

wow fantastic pics well done

Thank you!

The beetle sex pic is really good.
The one on top used to be painfully shy. It's good to see him coming out of his shell.

Sorry, couldn't resist it! Great pics!

Cheers!

 

[Illaveago]

Lovely pictures.

 

[Illaveago]

I have just discovered what bird has been singing away loudly in the trees for the past week or so. It was a Black cap, I managed to see it lower down in a smaller tree.

 

[Cubist]

@Hill Wimp and I went to RSPB Ham Wall and Westhay Moor Nature Reserve on the Somerset Levels yesterday morning (we were there for 7am!) and despite a rookie error when I picked up my lenses but not the camera and had to run back for it, managed to get a few decent shots - though a better zoom lens is required if this becomes a habit.

A very hungry caterpillar
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Damselflies
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Damselfy
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Damselfly
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Great Crested Grebe
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Ahem!
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Ladybird
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Wow. Humbling photos, you must be pretty pleased with yourself

 

[Cubist]

Saw one of my favourites, a little owl perched on some telegraph wires yesterday early afternoon.

 

[coffeejo]

Wow. Humbling photos, you must be pretty pleased with yourself

Thank you. And yes, for once, I actually am. (Ok, so I did have a confidence wobble at 6am and messaged a photographer friend, who told me to shut up, albeit politely and kindly!)

 

[coffeejo]

The great spotted woodpecker at the suet feeder has just told one of the sparrows off for daring to presume it could share the feast. It has retreated into the honeysuckle and is patiently waiting for the woodpecker to leave.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Lots of Racing Snakes (Bianchus Colnagus) in the Bakewell area on June 5th.

 

[Cubist]

[QUOTE 4312811, member: 9609"]you do well with the Little Owl, I seem to remember some time ago you had a wonderful picture of one sat in a drystone wall ?

I have never seen one, we're on the Northern edge of their range but I don't even know of anyone who has seen one round here.[/QUOTE]
Loads of drystone walls must be one of the answers. A lot of the walls round here are banked, so the vole population is huge. I now know of at least three territories where I could more or less predict a sighting given long enough. They must be at their busiest right now, but quite what he thought he was doing on a phone wire at 1 pm on a hot sunny day is anybody's guess! The lack of trees at this altitude also means they aren't hidden from view.

 

[Cubist]

I had a quick look and found the pics. The one I saw the other day was perhaps half a mile from these.

Saw this little chap watching us from the drystone wall this afternoon.

His partner was trying to blend in and play peek-a-boo...

 

[Illaveago]

The pond at the top of my garden was busy with pairs of blue Damsel flies yesterday. There was a pair of red ones but they were both male and were busy chasing each other off. I have noticed another variety which is lacking colour, almost transparent.
What I find amazing is that they all emerge from a tiny nymph.

 

[Maverick Goose]

[QUOTE 4312811, member: 9609"]you do well with the Little Owl, I seem to remember some time ago you had a wonderful picture of one sat in a drystone wall ?

I have never seen one, we're on the Northern edge of their range but I don't even know of anyone who has seen one round here.[/QUOTE]
I worked at High Close YHA in the Lakes last year and there were loads living in the grounds!