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Marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus hovering in flight

Essex, Hadleigh CP and Benfleet Downs, High speed sync flash, hoverfly, insectBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 9, 2011Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago I headed to Hadleigh Country Park to look for wildlife. There were a number of hoverflies around so I tried to capture them hovering in flight. Though Im not 100% happy with them I had some success, certainly better than I had managed before. The key seemed to be using…

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Hydrobius fuscipes – a scavenger water beetle

Freshwater invertebrates, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 8, 2011Leave a comment

Just a couple of photos of this small scavenger water beetle, Hydrobius fuscipes, taken in the photographic aquarium.

Smooth newt and common frog tadpoles

amphibian, Freshwater invertebrates, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 7, 2011Leave a comment

Back in May I took some photos of a smooth newt tadpoles.  This 1st one  I entered into the BWPA. but didn’t get shortlisted. smooth newt tadpole looking over twig head on edited I also photographed one of the common frog tadpoles.

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Springwatch badgers

badger, mammalBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 6, 20111 Comment

Here are some more badger photos from my trip to Pitsea landfill tip, which was made famous by BBC Springwatch this year with it’s tame foxes (more on them later) and badger hide maintained by Phil Shaw (You can see his excellent photos on his website Nature photo pro.com).

Saucer bug – Ilyocoris cimicoides

Freshwater invertebrates, heteroptera, UncategorizedBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 5, 2011Leave a comment

A few months back I pond (well lake) dipped at a private nature reserve trying to get some dragonfly nymphs. I failed to find any, but did find some excellent saucer bugs, something I had only seen twice before. They are true bugs (Heteroptera), which also includes the water boatmen, pond skaters and water scorpions,…

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Stratiomys soldierfly larva and brackish water prawn

Freshwater invertebrates, Uncategorized, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 4, 20114 Comments

Ive been catching up on some editing, especially on my pond photos. I got my best shots of a soldierfly larva, possibly Stratiomys sp. Not the prettiest of animals! Also in the same batch were these of the brackish water prawns.

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Badger Photographs

badger, mammalBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 3, 20114 Comments

A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to visit a fantastic site for photographing wild badgers. The chap who invited me and set up his camera gear for me to use was Phil Shaw and you can see his excellent photos on his website Nature photo pro.com. The set up we used involved…

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Meadow and lesser marsh grasshoppers and a wasp spider

grasshopper, odonata, spiders, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 2, 20111 Comment

This evening I went for a quick walk around Wat Tyler CP and thought I’d check a wasp spider hotspot.  Sure enough there were 3 webs with spider present.  Only one was in a reasonable position for photography. They were eating the grasshoppers, like this lesser marsh grasshopper. And this meadow grasshopper. I got some…

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Welcome to UK Wildlife Blog MK3

Blog news, Freshwater invertebrates, Website newsBy Neil-UKWildlifeAugust 1, 20113 Comments

Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve gone and made my new website, something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while now. I’ve gone with wordpress for the whole website to start with and I still need to tweek a few things, add a photo here and a description there.  The gallery is a temporary…

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