Day 3 of my holiday (4/7/17) and I had booked a trip with Marine Discovery Penzance for the afternoon, but the weather was grey a drizzly. I tested my camera gear (and my technique with the new set up!) on a house sparrow. I was on the Marine DIscovery boat soon after I arrived in…
Been editing some of the backlog on my hard drive and came across some shots of slow worms I took last year. This Juvenile sat nicely for me As did this adult.
A quick photo of a common lizard on a post in Wat Tyler Country Park
While at Thursley Common we came across this lizard sunbathing in the open on some flattened grass, I’ve not seen one in this sort of basking spot before.
I found my first reptiles of the year this morning: some slow worms. They were fairly sluggish, at least to start with, so I got a few shots of them before they slithered off.
In a break from the photos from Scotland, here are some from my holiday last year to Kefalonia. While driving up Mount Aenos we stopped to admire the view. I spotted this butterfly flying, I believe it is a dingy skipper. EDIT: it’s a grizzled skipper On a rock nearby this Balkan wall lizard was…
Some photos from last years trip to Kefalonia. There were Balkan wall lizards in many of the locations we visited and this one posed in the morning sun on an olive tree. Seem to have a yawn to wake up too!
A few photos from last Autumn. Some migrant hawker dragonfly in flight shots. Can’t wait to have another crack at these. And a slow worm.
Here is an article I wrote for my old blog. I’ve gone through and checked for mistakes and added some bits: Green lizard is the common name that refers to two species that were formally one (Lacerta viridis). The new species, the western green lizard (Lacerta bilineata), is now considered separate from the eastern green…
On visit to RSPB Rainham Marshes in April I saw 2 stoats, one of which was right in front of me, but I couldn’t get a clear shot of it in the reeds and grass. There was a silver lining however, as it scared one of the common lizards up into the reeds, where it…