Wild and Wonderful

The weather was unpromising, but we had a few patches here and there of watery sunshine. There were far fewer Damselflies about than on our ...

Helophilus pendulus Hoverfly, I think I came face to face with this tiger-like apparition , deep in the woods, along the boardwalk at D...

Large Red Damselfly, male   With shadow ... Query female Common Blue P.S. My thanks to Stuart who said... Caroline: I just re...

We went on an expedition to try out the new boardwalk at Dinefwr ... ... We liked the wildlife motifs (several different ones) on the ...

Red Kite My thanks to David , who took this photograph in Carmarthenshire at the weekend. When we first moved to Wales eighteen years ag...

Beautiful Demoiselle on stinging nettles I have been looking at Dragonflies and Damselflies. Today the Demoiselle comes under my spotlight....

A member of the family Lycaenidae at WWT Llanelli You may enjoy Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost, here. Speckled Wood Butterfly at Dinefw...

Discarded Dragonfly Nymph Case on the Boardwalk at Dinefwr

We watched this fledgling fly at Dinefwr . The photograph was taken with a zoom lens, through the car window. If anyone can identify the spe...

Large Red Damselfly | Pyrrhosoma nymphula at Dinefwr Welcome to my blog of the 'Wild and Wonderful'. I am hoping to post photographs...