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So, yesterday I had a new bug (to me) to photograph, and today I have another one. Who knew there was such a thing as a “Tiger Crane Fly” (Nephrotoma flavescens)? Certainly not me, but here was one flapping around Dunmow this afternoon. He’s behind bars now like too many
I always enjoy finding strange bugs wherever I go. These are strange to me – probably people who pay attention to their surroundings won’t find these particularly strange…so today – the relatively commonplace and the definitely new (to me). New to me is this Rusty Tussock Moth Caterpillar ( Orgyia antiqua)…at least,
I think one of our cats, Elijah, needs to go on a diet if today’s photograph is anything to go by. He was out looking at the birds in the back garden…he knows it’s futile going after them…he completely embarrassed himself by failing to jump into the bath the other
Not a new idea – indeed I tried this shot on my first 365 but it didn’t work out then, but it has been raining all day so I thought I’d give it another go. I don’t know about you – but I have about 5 orphaned socks in my
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
This (possibly fledgling) female blackbird appeared in our garden this morning. We didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to her until this afternoon when we realised she was still in residence and was not, apparently, capable of flying any distance. We then noticed that she had a damaged leg
I had a night on the town in London yesterday, hence the late post. I always enjoy a bit of symmetry – this is one of the escalators at Stansted Airport duplicated horizontally and vertically. I like the idea that, when you get on this escalator you will come to
Today we visited Leeds Castle in Kent. It’s billed as “The Loveliest Castle in the World”. Well, it’s not bad, and certainly looks good from over the moat, but I must admit to being fairly unimpressed with its overall size and inside was, frankly, a bit dull. The gardens/park were
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
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