Bank vole
A couple of photos of a bank vole that turned up a week or so ago.
Corizus hyoscyami plant bug
A nice recent find in my garden was this Corizus hyoscyami plant bug I intially thought it was a fire bug, but turned out to be this other lovely species.
Pedicia hairy cranefly larva
One of the stranger finds from a stream kick sample taken in the Cairngorms was this hairy cranefly Pedicia sp. larva. When you mention cranefly larvae, most people will think of the leatherjacket found under lawns eating grass roots, but there are a number of aquatic species too. The thing that surprised me about this…
How the cull could have made badgers locally extinct
The latest news from the badger cull is that it will be extended. Apparently they haven’t killed enough as many because there are less badgers than they estimated. The story is here on the BBC News website There is a bit of a staggering realisation when you look at the data in this story, it…
Sunset timelapse
Been playing with my Pentax Q and windows moviemaker. Quite like the result.
Chafford Gorge landscapes
Today I was trying out my Pentax Q with my newly purchased 8.5mm prime lens. The with the camera and lens designed to be so small, the lens suffers a bit from barrel distortion, but it is quickly sorted with lens correction in Lightroom. With a bit of PP I managed shots like these despite…
Slow motion video of wasps chewing wood and taking off
A little while ago I spotted a number of wasps chewing wood so I filmed them at 1/4th of normal speed using my Pentax WG-2. I filmed a number of clips and put the best bits together for this video In this video the first clip is at 1/4th normal speed, as is the second.…
Scratch and roll
My garden hedgehog is up to its old tricks of scratch and roll…
Grey seal fight
A 1 photo post of some grey seals fighting.
Hawthorn Shieldbug
Ive had a number of hawthorn shield bugs Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale in my garden recently. This posed for a few photos