Croft Pascoe.

Yesterday we paid a visit to Croft Pascoe Plantation.

We found this enormous Horse-Fly, about an inch and a half,

which is apparently the largest in the country.

TABANUS SUDETICUS



TABANUS SUDETICUS



COMMON CROSSBILL

          We saw around 30 Crossbills, the first we have seen in Cornwall. It was very windy so lucky to get any kind of shot.



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER



GATEKEEPER



RED ADMIRAL



SMALL TORTOISESHELL



We have included the Butterflies because we have

seen hardly any of the last 2 this year.

More from the Insect world.

Everywhere you look at the moment insects are either mating or killing each other.

Up Close to Nature.

This is a selection of recent insect shots. The Privet Hawk-Moth was found (as a chrysalis) in the garden of our friend Nigel, who brought it around for John to see, once it had pupated.

Up Close.

I have been working in Devon and Cornwall over the last 2 weeks and have taken most of these Macro shots around the outbuilders and Station yards. John