Its been a while since I’ve blogged properly, so here is an attempt to get back in the swing of things. Back in September I had a holiday to Cornwall, during in which I spent a number of days in Looe on the SE coast. At West Looe there is a wonderful rocky shore, where…
The Southern Migrant or Blue Eyed Hawkers have appeared again at Wat Tyler Country Park. Here is a statement that needs reading before going any further. We are pleased to say that the Southern Migrant Hawker dragonfly has been seen once again in Wat Tyler Country Park. Due to issues in previous years with the…
I have decided to write about one of my favourite invertebrates for each day of National Insect week. Day 2 is the Hornet Robberfly. At 25mm long and with its stocky build, the Hornet robberfly Asilus crabroniformis is probably the biggest true fly (Diptera) in the UK. The adult has yellow and black markings of…
Ive decided to write about one of my favourite invertebrates for each day of National Insect week. First up its the Bee-wolf Philanthus triangulum This is one of our largest species of solitary wasp (up to 18mm) that that hunts honey bees, which is the origin of the name bee-wolf (also sometimes referred to as…
Back in March I came across this fox as I was leaving work. I was th only person in the park and this fox look surprised to see me. I walk around with the fox trying to pre empt its next move and in doing so maanged a few backlit shots I even got one…
Its been a while since I’ve posted so here are some insect macros taken last week. May is my favourite season for insect macros. Here a couple of the iridescent green coloured nettle weevils, often found on nettles unsurprisingly. And a nursery web spider.
Over Christmas I set up a feeding station at work. It has been visited by blue tits and great tits in good numbers so I set up and took some shots one lunchbreak. These are the best of them.
A few weeks ago, after finally getting my Pentax K-3 back from repair, I visited an Oxfordshire site to photograph some red kites. We put down some chicken and waited, and it turned out to be a good days photography!
In the last few years there has been accusations thrown at the BBC about bias towards bloodsports and the views of the Tory led government on countryside and environmental policy. They ran a number of stories on the ‘Adam’s farm’ section on Countryfile where he said the badger cull was necessary to control bTB (skimming…
This is the second part of my best of my photos in 2015, the 1st part is here In the last weekend of June I headed to the New Forest to hopefully find some bog raft spiders. I sadly failed to find any there (or at Thursley Common on the way back), but did find…