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More pond creatures Black bellied diving beetle and water spider

Arachnid, beetles, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, spidersBy Neil-UKWildlifeDecember 22, 2017Leave a comment

Following on from my last post, I got the pond creature photography bug back at the end of last month and had an hour lunchbreak to kill, so decided to photograph the 2 species I had captured for a display I was showing The first was a Black bellied (great) diving beetle Dytiscus semisulcatus. The…

Greater spotted woodpecker at the feeders

bird, titBy Neil-UKWildlifeDecember 7, 20171 Comment

Over the last few weeks I have been keeping the feeders stocked up as the temperature starts to drop and the great tits, blue tits and sparrows have begun to return, along with a chaffinch or 2. Hopefully some more interesting birds will appear as the winter progresses. Last Friday I created a set up…

Feeding station photos

bird, Essex, tit, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeApril 23, 2016Leave a comment

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.

Grass snake eating great crested newt

amphibian, newt, Reptile, snakeBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 6, 20151 Comment

A few weeks ago I was showing some fellow great crested newt eDNA surveyors around Wat Tyler CP when we spotted a grass snake in one of the ponds. I went in for a closer shot and it dived under water and into some blanket weed for a short while. It came up backwards, which…

Great silver water beelte

beetles, Essex, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeOctober 9, 2014Leave a comment

Here a re few photos of Britain’s heaviest insect, the great silver water beetle Hydrophilus piceus, all taken in a photographic aquarium.

Wasp great diving beetle on white background

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insectBy Neil-UKWildlifeDecember 26, 2013Leave a comment

I’ve been playing with white backgrounds with my pond creature photography and I’m getting some OK results so far. Here is a Wasp (great) Diving Beetle.

Hatching great silver water beetles video

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, video, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeMay 30, 20132 Comments

A couple of years ago a golf ball sized clump of white fuzz was fished out of some blanket weed on a pond dip. I had no idea what it was until I spotted the brown snorkel sticking out the water: it was the egg cocoon of the great silver water beetle! Unfortunately it would…

Great tit

bird, Cairngorm, Scotland, titBy Neil-UKWildlifeMay 11, 2013Leave a comment

A couple of quick photos of great tits, taken in the RSPB Loch Garten Car Park back in March.

Great tit, treecreeper and Chaffinch

bird, finch, titBy Neil-UKWildlifeApril 5, 20131 Comment

Some more photos photos from Loch Garten. A great tit posed, looking right at me, which gives a bit of a different perspective. A treecreeper landed in a pine tree and I managed a couple of grab shots as it searched for food. And a chaffinch posed on the twig.

Grey Heron in the rain

bird, heron, LondonBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 20, 2012Leave a comment

Last weekend was supposed to be a relaxing long weekend with the girlfriend camping in the New Forest. Sadly the weather decided otherwise, so we stayed in Essex and went a on few day trips. One of these was to London, which included a walk through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. Just after we walked…

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