Wasp spider wide angle
A wide angle of a wasp spider from a couple of days ago.
Common lizard on a post
A quick photo of a common lizard on a post in Wat Tyler Country Park
Water scorpion Nepa cincera on white background
Some more white background photos, this time of the aquatic predator, a water scorpion Nepa cinerea.
Screech or squeek beetle Hygrobia hermanni on white background
A quick 1 photo post. A Screech or squeek beetle Hygrobia hermanni taken in my photographic aquarium
Lesser Yellow legs at West Canvey Marshes video
Popped over to West Canvey Marsh RSPB reserve yesterday in my lunch break to see the Lesser Yellow Legs, a bird I have never seen before. It was a distant view, and sadly the design at West Canvey means all birds on the far side of the lake there are and the birds on the…
Phantom midge larva
Today I’m off to the Launch of the Freshwater Habitats Trust, formerly known as Pond Conservation. I hope to Tweet this evening from the meeting and blog after the event, but to celebrate the launch, here are some phantom midge larva photos. I blogged some of the fascinating things about these brilliant creatures here:
Marsh frogs at Rainham Marshes
On Sunday I also got a few marsh frog photos. Including this turquoise individual.
Migrant hawkers in flight at Rainham Marshes
On Sunday I popped into RSPB Rainham Marshes in hope of finding some water voles. I had no luck but did find a couple of cooperative migrant hawker males. Sadly the light was not so cooperative m, with the sun increasingly dissappearing behind clouds, and doing so as the dragonfly hovering in front of me!…
Red backed shrike eats migrant hawker dragonfly
As regular readers know, I spent some time last week photographing a red backed shrike. The juvenile bird was around for a few days and was sometimes seen feeding. One foggy morning I was waiting for the fog to clear and it dived into a bush and caught something. It was a migrant hawker dragonfly!…
Red backed shrike on Bowers Marsh
I heard today that there was a red backed shrike locally, but I could not go anywhere till 5.30pm. Luckily my friend Dave was available to show me where it was and took me to see it. The light was awful at 6.45pm when it eventually showed for us, the sort of conditions where having…