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as we tend to do, we had a good walk around Rowney Woods today. I had my macro lens with me so was trying to find any creepy crawlies that were around when I came across this which was quite a surprise – the picture below shows what I saw
We were doing a bit of gardening this morning and I spotted this very small damselfly come into the garden and hang from a small potted plant. I believe it is a female Emerald Damselfly, lestes sponsa, but please don’t hold me to that…I have a very bad reputation for my
It’s been a wet and dreary day today so it was a case of nipping out into the garden between the showers and grabbing what was available. I ended up with a selection of garden snail macro shots which I quite enjoyed. This fella was having a snooze on a
I have no idea what this little bug is, but I love the fact that it fulfills all the cliches when you think about what a bug should look like.
We wondered why some of the tulips weren’t doing so well. After a heavy rain storm this afternoon it was hard to miss the culprits. We’ve always had a lot of slugs and snails in the garden – Debbie had put down broken egg shells in all the pots except
Today was my wife’s birthday so we have been celebrating this evening – I have taken my daily picture, but it is currently residing on the CF card awaiting processing which I will do tomorrow. So, for this evening here’s a shot I took last summer but didn’t do anything
We have been inundated with Peacock butterflies over the last few weeks in our garden in Great Dunmow. Despite the cats best efforts at catching them they have continued to visit the buddleia that they seem so fond of. I really liked this main picture, because you really don’t see
Spotted this fella in Rowney Woods – dragonflies may be bigger than damselflies, and you would have thought they would be easier to photograph – you have to be lucky to get one resting like this – normally they are permanently in motion patrolling their area, damselflies must get tired
My mate Mat is the grasshopper king so I was delighted to find this fella in the undergrowth at Dunmow cutting this afternoon He very obligingly popped onto the grass stalk for me to photograph him 😉
These bullocks were certainly interested to know what we were doing crossing their field by the River Pant at Little Bardfield
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