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Parasite
2014 - 365 Project

292/365v2 Parasite

Walking through Rowney Wood I noticed this bramble that was being used by a parasite to climb up a nearby tree. I enjoyed the strangulated thorn appearing between the wrapping vines. I thought a rather more cinematic look would work well with the picture.

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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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Creeping Ivy
2014 - 365 Project

250/365v2 Creeping Ivy

A quick walk around Rowney Woods unusually didn’t deliver many pictures, but this ivy looked pretty as it slowly crawled up this tree trunk.

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Mini Me
2014 - 365 Project

236/365v2 Mini Me

No idea what sort of flower this is…I assume some sot of daisy…but who knows. Found in Rowney Woods this afternoon.

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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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The Butterflies of Rowney Wood
Bugs and Critters

The Butterflies of Rowney Wood

I take a lot of photographs every day, but rarely publish more than one or two. Indeed I have a lot of photographs that I haven’t even processed which seems a shame, so here’s, hopefully, the first of a few catch up posts. Yesterday we had a great walk around

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Long-jawed Orb-weaver Spider - Tetragnatha extensa
2014 - 365 Project

177/365v2 The Centre of My Universe

We had our first walk in Rowney Woods this afternoon for the first time in 2 or 3 weeks…the growth is amazing. We went, amongst other things, to find some dragonflies to photograph, but they had all cleared off…leaving a whole host of butterflies and moths dashing about…but my favourite

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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.