BRITISH WILDLIFE

Saturday, 22 June 2019

SECOND DAY & MORE RARE DISCOVERIES

Well this was unexpected.

Ended up going somewhere that was not quite so far as the day when I photographed and filmed the UK's rarest plant the Creeping Marshwort, Apium repens a rare Jewel Beetle, Agrilus genus, and a singing male Reed Bunting as featured in my last post.

This place should not have produced anything of note .. or so I thought.

Taking someone there who was an insect freak ..

Five Spot Burnets, Golden Rod Crab Spiders, Spined Mason Bees, a Mining Bee, a Skipper Butterfly and at one point I was filming something that was pointed out to me. The insect freak walked away and I called him back as I spotted something out of the ordinary.

He was disinterested probably thinkig I had seen something common .. and I just pointed. I did not know what it was but I am very good at spotting things that are out of the ordinary.

He looked and then leapt like a lizard as it was a rare Bush Cricket called the Long Winged Conehead and he had been going to another location for a fair old while hoping to see them.

Common Blue Butterfly

Golden Rod Crab Spider (male) - Misumena vatia

Golden Rod Crab Spider (female)

Beetle of some kind

Spined Mason Bee - Osmia spinulosa

Long Winged Conehead - Conocephalus discolor

Five Spot Burnet - Zygaena trifolii

Small Skipper Butterfly

Mystery Bee I now realise I misnamed on YouTube

Mining Bee

Five Spot Burnet

Ruby Tailed Wasp

Long Winged Conehead

Golden Rod Crab Spider

Common Blue Buttefly

Thursday, 20 June 2019

RARE DAY & SOME RARE DISCOVERIES

Well due to a difficult atmosphere and despite pain and the weather going from Sunny to shite yet again I ended up out .. where I knew some rare things were around ..

Person with me bottled out when I saw a marshy land with a much lighter patch of green and I had a gut feeling that one of the things I was looking for was in the patch in in flower ..

Extremely rare plant only found in two tiny locations in England is the Creeping Marshwort, Apium repens .. and sure enough I found it!!

The one with me was blown away later when he realised I had found it .. not lost my touch it would seem ..

Also see a Jewel Beetle, Agrilus laticornis, said to be on the ed Data List along with a Common Blue Butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, and a male Reed Bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus.

Friday, 13 July 2018

A FEW BUTTERFLIES

Managed to force myself four days late to go through and post-process a few more photographs I took over a four day period ..

Brown Argus Butterfly ..

https://flic.kr/p/LYmM3W

Small White Butterfly ..

https://flic.kr/p/KrZXf8

Meadow Brown Butterfly ..

https://flic.kr/p/26meafo

https://flic.kr/p/26mekBL

https://flic.kr/p/27J7m1a

A Flying Beetle incoming ..

https://flic.kr/p/281EVBN

A Hoverfly chasing off a Small White Butterfly ..

https://flic.kr/p/292L9iU

Thursday, 28 June 2018

KENT'S RAPTOR POINT, FROGS & FINCHES

Well .. it was actually good and very, very .. cool!

But it was .. tough!

My health condition is doing its best to try and kill me .. one way it lets me know this, though it did not yesterday when I went on this trip, and another way has no damn warning.

Plus it likes to throw me some curve-balls and often two ore more at once.

I was in a .. very nice bed and breakfast with a very nice owner down in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.

Brother suggested we do this, the one I can talk to, has a car and does not perform like a child depending on the conversation topic. Lol. We went down with two nephews I had not seen in a while, one almost 18 while the other .. umm .. very young? Lol, I have a terrible memory but I would suggest he is three .. give or take a couple of months. Probably less.

Yeah on the evening I had a nerve wracking drive down, a panic attack once there and extremely uncomfortable feeling. This led to some trouble sleeping but I got there in the end.

The feeling persisted in a weaker form the next day .. finally disappeared after a pint of shandy and a couple of extra pills after my thighs started to ache. Up until this point I have only used my jpeg only Nikon P900 and had neglected the Sony A99II as I was not feeling particularly artistic ..

Also noticed just as I was about to post that the Nikon pics are bad .. not sure why this is .. did notice some dust on the lens at one point and cleaned it off .. also not sure if the exceptionally bright sunlight had an effect?