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Heath fritillary butterfly

butterflies, insect, KentBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 15, 20121 Comment

After visiting Elmley Marshes last Saturday, we popped over to East Blean Woods, a Kent Wildlife Trust Reserve which is one of the best best sites for the rare heath fritillary butterfly.  It took a while to find one as the sun had disappeared behind some thick cloud.  But we looked around a promising spot…

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British dragonfly and damselfly emergence and flight times

Freshwater invertebrates, insect, odonataBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 14, 20123 Comments

A few years ago on my old blog I posted a diagram to show the emergence and flight times of all the British odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and a seemed to be quite popular. Since then a number of new species have become established in Britain, or are at least well on their way to…

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Brown hare and quail at Elmley Marshes

bird, butterflies, butterflies, Gamebird, insect, Kent, mammalBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 11, 2012Leave a comment

On Saturday morning I headed reasonably early to Elmley Marshes. The drive in was pretty quiet except for a few yellow wagtails until I reached an area with a field that had much shorter vegetation. Here were a number of hares, which wherereachable with my Pentax 300mm and 1.7x convertor combo. One decided to have…

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Red grouse

bird, Cairngorm, Gamebird, ScotlandBy Neil-UKWildlifeJuly 2, 2012Leave a comment

A few photos I took of red grouse on my way home from the Cairngorms back in March, the route for which just so happened to take us through a good spot for them.

Backswimmer

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, insect, wat tyler cp, water boatmanBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 30, 2012Leave a comment

Here’s a slightly different pond creature shot, with a white background.  The backswimmer is also a bit different as its Notonecta maculata, rather than the usual N. glauca.  

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First (scarce?) emerald damselfly of the year

Essex, insect, odonata, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 18, 20122 Comments

Today just before my lunch break ended (typical!) I spotted an emerald damselfly (Lestes sp.). I managed a few photos, trying to focus on the key ID features to separate the from the Scarce (Lestes dryas), ‘common’ (L. sponsa) and the Southern/ migrant (L. barbarus) emeralds, all recorded from Wat Tyler Country Park. It refused…

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2 tailed common lizard at RSPB Rainham Marshes

Essex, Reptile, RSPB RainhamBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 17, 20122 Comments

I paid a visit to Rainham Marshes today as the weather forecast seemed OK, if a bit windy.  The wind pretty much ruled out any serious macro, except for larger stuff on the boardwalks and fences.  Around the bird woodland boardwalk there were plenty of common or viviparous lizards. However this one was a bit…

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Dytiscus diving beetle larva

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 16, 20126 Comments

Ive posted photos the larva of a lesser water beetle and the great silver water beetle recently, but the most ferocious of them all are the larvae of the great diving beetle species or Dytiscus larvae. If you mange to get one of these in your pond dipping tray, you will soon end up with…

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Puffins on Skomer

bird, PembrokeshireBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 12, 2012Leave a comment

Last June I went to Pembrokeshire, which meant a trip to Skomer. This Islan is most famous for its puffins and I got more than a few photos. I got photos with nesting material. And photos of them in flight Preening. Close up. On the sea And erm:

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Great silver water beetle larva feeding on wandering pond snail

beetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insectBy Neil-UKWildlifeJune 11, 20121 Comment

Following form my last post, here are the photos from that feeding great silver water beetle. You can really see those asymmetrical mandibles in this close up. Which they use to eat the snail. It would occasionally uncurl to get some air from the surface. Before recurling around its wandering pond snail prey. In this…

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