Also at Minsmere I went to the hide that is usually good for photographing nesting Avocets. Sadly the water level was so high only a few black headed gulls were left on the remaining tops of the islands.
Some were bringing in nesting material.
A couple of weekends ago I visited a very wet Minsmere RSPB nature reserve in Suffolk. There was not much about but in the car park I photographed some rabbits, including a cute little kit.
Another was grooming
On my visit to Kefalonia 2 years ago I spent a half day in the capital Argostoli. In the harbour there were a number of yellow legged gulls.
Walking along the shore path I came across the first shrike I had ever seen, a woodchat shrike.
The harbour is famous for the tame loggerhead turtle. I got ok views of one but the best photo I could managed was this!
A quick post with the other photos from Mounda beach. There was a large antlion, probably Palapares sp.
And the smaller Euroleon sps.
There was an individual of both the ringed plover species on the beach.
Ringed plover
Little ringed plover
It was a beautiful sunny day.
The balkan wall lizards were basking.
A couple of years ago I went to Kefalonia, staying in Skala at the south of the island. A decent walk away was Mounda beach near Katelios. This beach is one of the last breeding sites for loggerhead turtles on Kefalonia, a species that is under threat from expanding tourism. However there is a group that is working to protect them: the Katelios groups.
When I was there in May the were of course no turtles, but there was a lot of other wildlife. The good light helped me get this emperor dragonfly in flight over a small stream flowing onto the beach.
There were also house martins collecting mud/wet sand from the stream.
There were a number of tiger beetles running around too.
The walk down to the beach was quite productive too. This swallowtail caterpillar was a nice find.
This cleopatra butterfly posed by the road, unlike their never still brimstone relatives!
And this latice brown butterfly posed briefly.
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