Fab Four

Four species of Beetle photographed in our field in recent days.

Summer Chafer

Long Horn Beetle

Soldier Beetle

Ladybird

Stonechats

A lovely sunny day at Trevose head on the North Cornwall coast, for most of the morning hardly saw another soul which was bliss. I sat down for my lunch and soon realised a pair of Stonechats were feeding young close by. As long as I just sat quietly they took little notice of me and I was able to get a few photos as they came and went. The first photo of a female is at a different site, Kit Hill, again in Cornwall ,which I visited on the way home from work one afternoon.

Silver Washed Fritillary

July 2020.

Always nice to come across these beautiful Butterflies, this one was feeding on Bramble flowers at Roadford Lake in West Devon one sunny evening recently.

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

Silver Washed Fritillary

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Fledglings

Many of the commoner birds have now finished their nesting seasons and the youngsters are being fed in our garden, always a delight watching them

Wren youngster

Wren youngster

Young Coal Tit

Juvenile Robin

Young Coal Tit being fed

Juvenile Robin

A few more from home

In the recent couple of weeks I have been spending some time crawling around in the long grass and vegetation searching for any bugs I may come across. Lots of insects including caterpillars, beetles, flies ,bees and dragon and damselflies, you never know what you might find to focus the macro lens on. Here are some of the insects found so far.

Cardinal Beetle

Thick Legged Flower Beetle on Foxglove

Yellow Dung Fly

Dung Fly with prey

Greenbottle

Scorpion Fly on Fern

Early ? Bumblebee

Peacock Caterpillars

Peacock Caterpillars

Drinker Moth Caterpillar

Blue Tailed Damselfly ( I think)

Male Broad Bodied Chaser

Male Broad Bodied Chaser

Female Broad Bodied Chaser

Crab Spider

May 2020.

I was quite excited when I came across this Crab Spider among the Daisies in our field, and I spent some time watching and photographing it. It was lying in ambush, blending in with the white petals as this unsuspecting fly came closer and closer until bam, it was in the spiders clutches.

Long Tailed Tits.

Still in lockdown but I was lucky to find a pair of Long Tailed Tits nesting in a Gorse bush in the fields next to our house. I spent a lot of time just watching them come and go with beakfulls of insects and spiders to feed their hungry young. Thankfully the chicks fledged successfully.