EP84 – British Orchids – An introduction
We look look at Britain’s orchids and give an introduction to this fascinating group of plants
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EP74 – Yellow Tailed Scorpions in Britain
An arachnid species special for #Arachtober on a creature you may be surprised to here is found in the UK, the Yellow Tailed Scorpion. Covering where they live, how they feed, courtship and their lifecycle.
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The UKs ‘best’ invertebrates
What is the UKs ‘best’ invertebrate? Its (just about still) Insect Week so I decided to try and find out. With 1000s if not 10,000s of species to choose from, it was not easy. This list would no doubt be different from any other person, and I tried to make sure I didn’t pick too…
Best shots of 2017
Its that time of year to look back and reflect on what I’ve seen and photographed. No trips abroad this year, and I largely visited places I have been many times before, but I certainly found some new things and improved my shots of others. The year started, as it often does with me, inside…
Hunting Britain’s biggest spider, the fen raft spider
This year I decided that I needed to get some good shots of raft spiders, the largest spider species found in the UK. Unfortunately living in Essex there are no sites nearby, the closest good site I’m aware of being Thursley Common in Surrey, where the Bog Raft Spider Dolomedes fimbriatus can be found. A…
Southern migrant hawker at Wat Tyler CP update 2-8-15
Please the read introduction text on this post first HERE (which also has some other useful info) What a difference a few days make. On Wednesday I was thinking the southern migrant (or blue eyed) hawkers might have been having a brief early(ish) emergence and numbers reducing, then Thursday and Friday resulted in plenty of…
Black winged stilt at RSPB Bowers Marsh
I got a Text today from the wonderful Howard Vaughan informing me that there was a pair of Black Winged Stilts at RSPB Bowers Marsh. They are the first seen in the UK in 2014 I have been told. I was fortunately about to go on my lunchbreak, so popped over to bowers where a…
Alien Species in Britain: Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)
The Ruddy Shelduck originates from Southern Europe, North Africa and South and Central Asia (with some populations wintering in South East Asia). It is a large rusty orangey brown duck, 64cm in length and with a wingspan of 133cm. The male is slightly larger the female and weighs 1.4kg to her 1.2kg (Robinson, 2005). The…
Common lizard Zooteca vivipara
A few photos of common lizards I took a couple of a juvenile months ago.
Adder Vipera berus photos
I managed some nice photos of a young adder this morning. It posed well, didn’t move, but as always with these snakes something wasn’t great, the light. It was a sunny morning but this snake was in the shade and I ahd to resort to flash. My flashgun batteries were dead so I had to…