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2025 - 365 Project

131-365v5 – Chaffinch

The chaffinches are getting more confident (or hungry) and will tolerate us moving around their “feeding stations” a lot more than previously which means I should, over the course of the next few months, get closer which means better quality pictures of these birds.

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129-365v5 Orange Tip Butterfly

We’ve got lots of Lady Smock growing on the lawn and we are doing the whole no mow May this year so the Orange Tip Butterflies are loving the flowers that they can get at now.

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128-365v5 – The Farne Islands

I had a day trip with a couple of photography friends to the Seahouses in Northumberland and took a boat trip across to Inner Farne of the Farne Isalnds to see the Birds and Seals that live and breed there. It was an excellent day out and we were able

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123-365v5 – Sheeps

The lambs are all growing up and getting more rambunctious every day. They like to spend the late afternoon over in our corner of their field. Mothers are looking fairly tired of all the bouncing around!

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Butterfly, Green Veined White
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119-365v5 Green Veined White Butterfly (Pieris napi)

I originally thought this was a female orange tip, not least because we have loads of male orange tip butterflies in the garden. However, having done a reverse search on Google it does look like this is in fact a Green Veined White Butterfly (Pieris napi) which was enjoying the

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Chat
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116-365v5 – Chat

Just a couple of swallows having a chat on the telephone line. Why red? Why not! Black & White? Well, no, it is monochrome though! Here’s the actual black and white version:

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114-365v5 – Birds In Flight

Planning on going to photograph the Puffins over at the Farne Islands in a couple of weeks so got some practice in on some of the garden birds. It’s definitely easier when you know they are going to fly in a certain area, in this case, the bird feeders. I’ve

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Common Lizard
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110-365v5 – Common lizard (Zootoca vivipara)

Debbie spotted this lizard basking on some old wood I had dug up out of the garden (it used to be part of the house’s old roof). Also known as the viviparous lizard apparently. We think we had an early sighting of this about 2 weeks ago but it legged

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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.