A MIXED BAG.

This post is a bit of a mixed bag. Some shots taken a while ago

 but not making the blog and others taken during the week.

DEW DROPS



DEW DROPS




POPLAR HAWK-MOTH CATERPILLAR



POPLAR HAWK-MOTH CATERPILLAR



BLACK TERN



BLACK TERN



KESTREL



BLACK-HEADED GULL



BLACK-HEADED GULL



COMMON DARTER

COMMON DARTER, fem.



COMMON HAWKER



SOUTHERN HAWKER, fem.



SOUTHERN HAWKER, male.

GOLDEN-RINGED DRAGONFLY

Most of the Dragonflies were taken by Sue.

WASP SPIDERS.

I have found 3 colonies of Wasp Spiders this year, a bit later than usual I think.

Editing these is not Sues favourite job!!  John

WASP SPIDER















This Wasp Spider sitting on the edge a small envelope gives some indication of their size.

Some are quite large, espescially the females.



Croft Pascoe and Windmill Farm.

SOUTHERN HAWKER

CLOUDED YELLOW

CLOUDED YELLOW

GRAYLING

GRAYLING

WALL BROWN

BLACK-TAILED SKIMMER

COMMON DARTER



COMMON HAWKER, EATING PREY.

We went to Croft Pascoe plantation at the week-end and found several of the big Hawkers. They kept landing on our backs which made Sue very nervous even though she loves Dragonflies.

We also saw our first Graylings of the year, one of which had a lot of white in it.

Afterwards we went on to Windmill Farm and saw 3 or 4 Clouded Yellow Butterflies,

again our first for the year.

BLACK DARTER.



We went to Breney Common and saw a few male Black Darters, no females around.

The female at the bottom was taken 3 weeks ago in the same area.

BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER

BLACK DARTER, fem.

MOTHS

I Thought I would put up a page of Moths as I have collected quite a few recently. Some of these are taken around the security lights at work and others on our local patch.


BLACK ARCHES

 


BIRD-CHERRY ERMINE




BRIMSTONE




BURNET COMPANION




COMMON FOOTMAN




LESSER SWALLOW PROMINENT




MAGPIE MOTH




SMALL MAGPIE




PEACH BLOSSOM




PURPLE THORN




RIBAND WAVE




ROSY FOOTMAN




SCARLET TIGER




SHARP-ANGLED PEACOCK




SILVER Y




SWALLOW-TAIL MOTH




SIX-SPOT BURNET