Wheatear with weevil on its beak
While photographing the wheatear at Wat tyler CP, I noticed something on its beak.
I seems to be some sort of weevil.
Possibly Sitona lineatus or s imilar weevils species.
Wat Tyler Wheatear
Today at Wat tyler, I got told there was a wheatear in the car park. So I grabbed my gear and headed out to have a look. I grabbed some record shots before it flew to the nearby gravel. I managed to creep quite closely by laying on my belly doing a pretty decent seal…
DetailsBee wolf, 22 spot ladybird and brown argus at Canvey Wick
Back in August, I went along to the Buglife walk at Canvey Wick. The weather was not perfect but improved as the day went on so we did find some nice invertebrates, which is what the site is famous for. In fact it is believed to have more species per hectare than any other site…
DetailsSouthern grey shrike and atlantic lizard
Some more photos from Lanzarote. Walking along the seafront path in Puerto del Carmen I could here a loud and unfamiliar call coming from a bush. I had a look around the bush and there, less than 50cm from the ground and a couple of metres in front of me was a southern grey shrike.…
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Back on Pitsea Landfill site and photographing the wonderful foxes there. This particular fox seemed to have got something stuck in is teeth and pulled a sucession of great poses.
Before stopping to lick is paw clean.
Broad bodied chaser nymph, smooth newt tadpole and hawker dragonfly nymphs
Some more pond photos. For this broad bodied chaser nymph I used image stacking.
I also tried some image stacking on some smooth newt tadpoles.
And this damselfly nymph.
I also took some typical macros of this hawker dragonfly nymph, which had just shed its skin and was light green in colour.
Hawker dragonfly nymph close up
Here is an image of a hawker dragonfly nymph that has just shed its skin (hence the light colouration), that I took using my photographic aquarium. I managed to increase the depth of field by using image stacking (combining a few images focused at different distances).
Yellow legged gulls, whimbrel and ring necked parakeet
Some more shots from Lanzarote, the rest of the photos from the day I photographed the sanderlings. First up some yellow legged gulls
I got some more whimbrel shots.
I also spotted a few ring necked parakeets in some trees.
Sanderlings in Lanzarote
On my second morning in Lanzarote I headed down to the beach in Puerto del Carmen. There were a few sanderlings in a small sandy bay.
Birds in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote
On our first day on Lanzarote, we went for a walk South along the town in which we were staying: Puerto del Carmen. There were a few waders around the rocks at the southern end of Los Pocillos beach the most surprising of which was a whimbrel. I manged to get fairly close. I was…
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