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These swans came straight across to me when I stepped down onto the edge of the lake – obviously looking for food, I thought…but no – they marched up out of the water hissing at me…charming!
There’s a small pond next door to the office and I’ve seen these two moorhens popping in and out to feed on the grass. Everytime they see me they immediately dive into the cover around the pond. So this afternoon you could find me dangling out of the window taking
I’ve not seen many wasps at all this year – this is only the second one I have been conscious of seeing this year.
Back to work after my short break and I popped across the River Stour to Mistley which is adjacent to Manningtree. I had no idea there were so many swans here – in this picture you can only see a tiny fraction of the swans that are in the area…literally
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
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
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
Spotted on the ceiling in the lounge this evening – as always – don’t take my IDs as gospel…I regularly get them wrong 😉
As always, take my ID with a pinch of salt – if you know that I’m wrong do let me know 😉
I have been trying to get an inflight dragonfly for some time and I finally got one today whilst walking through Rowney Woods. Typically, having failed a number of times previously I managed to get 4 or 5 of them today!
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