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Crane Flies
I thought I’d go with an unusual angle for today – this insect was clinging to the outside of the window this morning, posing perfectly for a photo. The only trouble is that I’ve obviously only seen the underside of the insect, and most identification photos are taken from the top! Just going on the…
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Thunderstorms and Funnel Cloud?
As you’ve probably realised by now, I enjoy taking photos of cloudscapes – so when I heard some rumbles of thunder in the distance yesterday, I set up my camera at the window to see what I could spot. While I was taking the photos for a potential animation showing the clouds coming over, I…
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Butterfly Watching
Following on from yesterday, it’s not just the bees that are keen on the nectar from the Blackberry flowers – this butterfly spent quite a while on one particular flower. Looking through my butterfly book, I thought maybe this was a Meadow Brown Butterfly…. but none of the pictures in the book show three small spots on the underside…
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Buzzing Bees on a Blackberry Bush
Although you can buy Blackberry plants from garden centres, they grow readily in the wild: the side of the lane was full of the thorny stems and flowers, with plenty of bees gathering nectar. As I was taking photos, two passers-by stopped to look at the flowers. Commenting to each other on the abundance of “blossom”…
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Just a Couple of Crows
I know there’s a large population of seagulls that live nearby – any time the Buzzard flies overhead, there’s usually several gulls flying below it, along with a couple of crows. I hadn’t realised, however, that quite so many crows seemed to call this neighbourhood home…. There wasn’t anything apparent that had spooked them – no…
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A Quarrel of Sparrows
The House Sparrows are out in force at the moment – you merely need to walk past the shrubs and you can hear them all chirping! Spotting them isn’t the easiest of pastimes though, as they like to sit in the middle of the bushes. These few, however, decided that the phone lines would be preferable…
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Blue Skies and Fluffy White Contrails
….and a few white clouds as well. If someone was to paint a sky like this, invariably somebody else would claim “you’d never get a sky looking like that”! #30dayswild
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A Rattling of Magpies
I could hear the magpies most of the day, but they remained out of sight. I know they like to sit on the rooftops and drink from the guttering – sometimes you can look out of the window and see a tail dangling down from the roof! It sounded like a lot of young magpies,…
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A spare piece of lettuce
The slugs and snails have been nibbling their way through the Sprout plants we’re trying to grow, which obviously isn’t much help! Last night, we spotted a slug on the steps in the garden, which looked like it was wanting a tasty snack. Rather than letting it get as far as nibbling the sprout plants…
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Gone Wild
There’s a lot of grassy areas nearby, which are maintained by the local council. In the last two years, some of the areas have been designated “wild” with the grass only being cut twice a year. Some of the “wild” areas seem to change shape each time the surrounding grass is cut, which I doubt…