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Our back garden, probably as in most other back gardens, is full of slugs and snails. As with many of these types of creature I have always dismissed them as slimy messy things that get under my feet when it’s dark in the garden. Up close, they are quite interesting
Back to Rowney Woods this morning where we saw a whole mass of fallow deer. we started by seeing a loan stag patroling the edge of the woods on his own, he looked quite young.
Back to Rowney Woods between Thaxted and Saffron Walden in Essex. These woods abound with wildlife and we saw something on Sunday that we haven’t seen before here – a frog: I mucked up taking this photograph, I’d forgotten to change my f-stop and was at f14 so I had
This Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) was photographed in Rowney Woods a week and a half ago, but it is becoming more and more common to see these throughout the year. Previously these would only be present in the UK between May and September so it will be interesting to see
We’ve not had a song title/reference for a while so see if you can get this one. We visited West Wood just outside Thaxted at the weekend (actually on our way back to Dunmow from Rowney Wood) and found this chap hanging around in a most peculiar position!
Found today in the bath was this monster. He cast quite a shadow! He was caught and put out in the garden. Debbie thought she could hear him walking on the gravel!
We visited Rowney Woods again today and saw loads of wildlife including a muntjac deer and a small group of fallow deer – needless to say, none were to keen to be photographed! The dragonflies were out in force and there were plenty of other smaller creatures including this Forest
We took a walk down the Flitch Way this afternoon, starting in Little Dunmow walking down to the edge of Great Dunmow and then completing a circle back to Little Dunmow. After being deluged by a short, sharp shower we came across this female Migarnt Hawker Dragonfly.
It was a lovely sunny afternoon today so I went off to one of my favourite spots Damselfly spotting with my new macro lens over in Little Bardfield. I found a small number of damselflys but also found lots of other bugs to photograph including this rather unpleasant looking drone
I’m not a fan of wasps, nasty stingy things that get in your beer, but get a macro lens onto them and maybe they become things of beauty. I love the colours on its head, I’ve never noticed reds on a wasp before, mind you, I’ve never been this close
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