Wild and Wonderful

Signs of the season ... unidentified insects! I would love to know what these are! Are they too furry for Hoverflies?

Bugle As some of you regular readers may know, I took part in an ongoing wild flower count one summer term, back in the 1960s, when I w...

A busy bee at Aberglasney I am wondering whether this might be a White-Tailed Bumblebee: you can see another photo here (& please c...

I have been meaning to post my Bempton Cliffs Gannets for some days. I love the pairing rituals of these birds: the word 'tenderness...

APRIL: bird species spotted in April for the first time this year (2011)  All these birds, with the exception of the Pied flycatcher wer...

I wonder if other people have difficulty in distinguishing between the Song thrush and the Mistle thrush ! I see that the Song Thrush is ...

Bluebells and Wild Garlic at Aberglasney , the Garden Lost in Time ~ where wild and cultivated flowers blend Those dusky, dusty bluebe...

Wildlife seen on or around the Larch to date ... Goldfinch: the new kid on the block THE TREE YEAR The Larch is bursting with ne...

Last weekend ... We noticed a flash of black and white ... ... as a male Pied Flycatcher appeared in a favoured nesting spot. H...

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

Yellow Pimpernel, beside a stream in South Wales, April 2011 When I was in junior school in Kent in the 1960s, we had an ongoing wild fl...

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

Spotted (sorry!) on 30 March 2011 ~ indoors on a cushion cover I have got rather behind with Ladybird postings for 2011. I think the...

I am not entirely sure whether the top two photos show Dock Leaf Beetles ( Gastrophysa viridula) . I think they do, but thanks to Stuart...

What is this? Spotted in the WWT Llanelli lake where we often watch dragonflies ... Is it just a decaying leaf or is it some kind of c...

I took a stroll around WWT Llanelli in the late afternoon sunshine, and was delighted to watch my first Dragon - and Damsel-flies of the sea...