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European Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
2014 - 365 Project

288/365v2 European Garden Spider

According to wikipedia…so take this with a pinch of salt, the european garden spider will eat its web during the night, including all the bugs therein, and then re-spin its web in the morning. I know for a fact, that this web has been here for at least 3 days,

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Chip Extractor
2014 - 365 Project

259/365v2 Chip Extractor

Whilst looking for a tape measure at work I found this interesting contraption in the workshop. It’s actually upside down in the picture and is used for extracting microchip boards out of boards…or something like that – I was told but wasn’t really paying attention 😉

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Mushroom City in Garnetts Wood
2014 - 365 Project

257/365v2 Mushroom City in Garnetts Wood

We took a walk around Garnetts Wood in Barnston this morning. We’d been looking out for fungi but had seen very little until, near the end of the walk we came across this mushroom city…there were an awful lot of mushrooms growing from a recently fallen tree.

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Lean On Me
2014 - 365 Project

248/365v2 Lean On Me

The first signs of autumn are beginning to come through. I’ve been noticing fungi appearing in a few places and the grassed area outside the office has suddenly sprouted a fair collection of mushrooms…

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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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Thorns
2014 - 365 Project

208/365v2 Thorns

Been stuck at home all day today for one reason and another so could only mooch about in the garden to find a shot – got plenty of bugs, but I’ve posted lots of those recently so thought I would post this simple black and white shot of thorns from

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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.