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Crockford Bridge: Southern damselfly and golden ringed dragonfly

insect, New forest, odonataBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 8, 2012Leave a comment

On Sunday I visited Crockford Bridge, a stream well known for its dragon and damselflies. My target species was the southern damselfly, one of the rarest species in the UK and one I had never seen. It didn’t take me long to find one! Here is a pic of my first ever southern damselfly! They…

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Ruddy darter, wolf spider with eggs and a common lizard

Essex, insect, odonata, Reptile, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 2, 20121 Comment

A few photo from Wat Tyler CP during the recent sunny spell. First up a ruddy darter. This wolf spider was warming her egg cocoon in the sun. And this lizard posed for a photo… …before playing peak-a-boo.

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A Water stick insect Ranartra linearis

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 1, 2012Leave a comment

I’m a bit of a pond dipper, as some regular readers will have worked out, but there is one species that has always eluded me, the water stick insect. This year I saw a preserved specimen and a captive one (which I never managed to photograph), but never before had I seen a live wild…

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Emperor dragonfly egg laying

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 30, 20122 Comments

More recent photos from Wat Tyler Country Park. This time a female emperor dragonfly which was laying its eggs on some fallen reeds. This angle, although a bit top down, shows the tip of the abdomen in action below the surface. And I tried an in the environment shot too.

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Scarce emerald damselfly Lestes dryas

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 29, 2012Leave a comment

The rubbish weather so far this summer has stopped me getting much in the way of macro shots at all, let alone of the local speciality, the scarce emerald damselfly. However the improved weather last week did let me get the following.

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Rabbit stretching

Essex, mammal, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 26, 2012Leave a comment

Having realised how rubbish my wildlife stalking technique was on a trip to Scotland, when an opportunity has presented itself to practise, I’ve had a go. A couple of weeks ago I came across one of the (usually a bit wary) rabbits in Wat Tyler, in an area less likely for dogs to appear so…

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Gull eats seal pup eye

bird, gull, mammal, sealBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 23, 20122 Comments

I should probably start this post by warning that there are GRAPHIC images of nature in the raw (please forgive the cliché). It features a gull doing what it does best (scavenging) and what it needs to survive. If you of one of those people that don’t ‘do’ nature, probably best to skip this post!…

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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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Wood Mouse

mammal, rodent, Surrey, Thursley commonBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 17, 20121 Comment

On a recent visit to Thursley Common, which was sadly pretty unproductive for invertebrates, we found this wood mouse which was feeding on grass seeds near the picnic area. It seemed unfazed by the humans around it but wouldn’t quite come out enough to pose. We all waited for a good 20 or 30mins and…

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Spitting spider

Arachnid, spidersBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 16, 2012Leave a comment

On Friday evening I spotted a spider in the bathroom. On closer inspection I realised it was a spitting spider. These are described as uncommon and this was only my second ever one, the first having been found in my house also. They are called spitting spiders because they catch their prey by spraying it…

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