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I caught this photograph of a hoverfly feeding on nectar down by the River Pant between Great and Little Bardfield
August 2, 2012 No Comments
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I caught this photograph of a hoverfly feeding on nectar down by the River Pant between Great and Little Bardfield
We are lucky enough to have a large area of lavender in our back garden. We didn’t plant it there, it just arrived one year and we have enjoyed it every year since…as have the local hoverflys, amongst others 😉
I popped out for a walk late afternoon/early evening and decided to head down to the Flitch Way in Dunmow. I’ve been on the Flitch Way at Little Dunmow and Little Canfield, but never in Great Dunmow. So off I set, thinking I knew exactly how to get to it…of
I went out today with all 3 extension rings attached to my camera and the 105mm macro lens to go for really small stuff. Whilst this spider isn’t particularly small I was looking to capture the web, more than the actual spider and I was delighted with the results. The
A brief break in the rain this afternoon meant I could pop out and grab this shot f a hoverfly venturing into a foxglove.
Out in the garden today with my macro lens and I caught this spider shinning down his web at a fair rate of knots:
This may or may not be a winter damselfly – its colours are right but it could just be an immature damselfly of another variety. It was seen on the River Pant at Little Bardfield.
I spent a couple of hours in Little Bardfield by the river tracking down bugs…I found loads 😉 This is a damselfly, it looks like a winter damselfly but these are very rare over here so I am assuming it is, in fact, an immature different species…you’ll have gathered, I’m
Popped over to one of my favourite bug areas today over in Little Bardfield and saw plenty of Banded Demoiselles and Mayflies, along with a collection of beetles and this butterfly, a speckled wood.
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