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Busy Bee
2016 - 365 Project

263/365v3 – Busy Bee

Not the picture I was going to post today…I had a great shot of a rabbit in the local graveyard…unfortunately, for the second time recently, I hadn’t put the SD card in and so didn’t get anything…so popped out into the garden and spotted this bee…

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European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
2014 - 365 Project

288/365v2 European Garden Spider

According to wikipedia…so take this with a pinch of salt, the european garden spider will eat its web during the night, including all the bugs therein, and then re-spin its web in the morning. I know for a fact, that this web has been here for at least 3 days,

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Peek a Boo
2014 - 365 Project

264/365v2 Peek a Boo

We were looking around some tree stumps in Rowney Woods for fungi when we came across this Wood Mouse.

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Dusty Wasp
2014 - 365 Project

228/365v2 Dusty Wasp

I’ve not seen many wasps at all this year – this is only the second one I have been conscious of seeing this year.

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Female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatu
2014 - 365 Project

215/365v2 Dragonfly Day

I have never seen so many dragonflies in Rowney Woods as I saw today…literally hundreds of hawkers flying around, particularly over the fields of barley near the entrance to the woods. The hawkers were far too busy to settle so I had to content myself with this female Common Darter

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Nature's Rail Tracks
2014 - 365 Project

207/365v2 Nature’s Rail Tracks

This spider had caught a flying ant in his web and was moving in for his dinner. When I looked at this photograph on the computer it immediately brought to mind a lady tied up on the railtracks with the train bearing down on her that you used to see

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Longhorn Beetle (Leptura maculata)
2014 - 365 Project

201/365v2 Here Comes Dinner

Debbie spotted this Longhorn Beetle flying to this plant – what a great bug. No hoverflies were harmed in the making of this photograph. This was the first of many new bugs (to me) spotted today – more below

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.