The one I did see I am sure is a couple inches bigger than this one? Anyhoo this was the second Terrapin seen that day and spotted between some bushes while on my bike on the way home! I was of course looking out for these ones, there were two originally, so not a big deal spotting it really.
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
THE ORIGINAL RED EAR RETURNS
I am sure this is the smaller of two Terrapins I know quite locally that last year I did not spot?
The one I did see I am sure is a couple inches bigger than this one? Anyhoo this was the second Terrapin seen that day and spotted between some bushes while on my bike on the way home! I was of course looking out for these ones, there were two originally, so not a big deal spotting it really.
The one I did see I am sure is a couple inches bigger than this one? Anyhoo this was the second Terrapin seen that day and spotted between some bushes while on my bike on the way home! I was of course looking out for these ones, there were two originally, so not a big deal spotting it really.
THE RETURN OF THE DANCING DEMOISELLES
Ahh my old favourites return!
Graceful on the wind like that of a pirouetting ballet dancer when the reality is that other flying insects live in mortal fear of. A hunting and expertly winged predatory eagle eyed death on the wing Damselfly.
Graceful on the wind like that of a pirouetting ballet dancer when the reality is that other flying insects live in mortal fear of. A hunting and expertly winged predatory eagle eyed death on the wing Damselfly.
A SPIKY CATERPILLAR
From my young days with a younger brother and if memory serves me well this distant, from me, caterpillar may well be a Peacock. I am sure spikes and nettles rings bells of Peacocks? Probably Small Tortoiseshells?! LOL!
A GOLDEN COLOURED DRAGONFLY
A very peculiar coloured Dragonfly, not Damselfly because it holds it wings out and that is one difference between the two.
Probably a female Darter of some sort and there are Common Darters in the area. This is at Cottonmill Stream which is a welll known Dragonfly sanctuary. Not as many as the authorites would have you believe, not even close but I have so far seen three or four large Dragonflies of the Hawker group (Brown, err Migrants last year and the other looking like that one, Emperor), Banded Demoiselles are always in large and impressive numbers too. Also seen Red Eyed Damselflies and pictured them but rubbish. Hopefully this year some good and sharp shots.
Hairy Legged Damsels ... errrr ... or was it White Legged Damselflies?! Lol!
Probably a female Darter of some sort and there are Common Darters in the area. This is at Cottonmill Stream which is a welll known Dragonfly sanctuary. Not as many as the authorites would have you believe, not even close but I have so far seen three or four large Dragonflies of the Hawker group (Brown, err Migrants last year and the other looking like that one, Emperor), Banded Demoiselles are always in large and impressive numbers too. Also seen Red Eyed Damselflies and pictured them but rubbish. Hopefully this year some good and sharp shots.
Hairy Legged Damsels ... errrr ... or was it White Legged Damselflies?! Lol!
BEE ORCHIDS 2014
Now there did not seem to be many of these about, but I have to go back and double check a few things!
Last year the surrounding plants were a great deal lower than they are this year and I cannot emphasize this enough! So I do not know if I just cannot see the others, which might be why I have not found them previously, or much more likely that the excessive and constant Winter, Spring and early Summer rain has allowed the normal plants to block out the light from the Orchids?
There was one Bee Orchid, shown in one of the videos, which was much taller than the others and all of them were much taller than the ones I saw last year.
Bee Orchids Patch One
A nice example of a Bee Orchid in Patch One
Bee Orchids Patch Two
Last year the surrounding plants were a great deal lower than they are this year and I cannot emphasize this enough! So I do not know if I just cannot see the others, which might be why I have not found them previously, or much more likely that the excessive and constant Winter, Spring and early Summer rain has allowed the normal plants to block out the light from the Orchids?
There was one Bee Orchid, shown in one of the videos, which was much taller than the others and all of them were much taller than the ones I saw last year.
Bee Orchids Patch One
A nice example of a Bee Orchid in Patch One
Bee Orchids Patch Two
THE RED EARED ALIEN
Well there is an alien in the vicinity down at the cotton mill!
Not spotted by me previously a Red Eared Terrapin of the North American Clemmys ... errrr or is that Macroclemmys genus. Sometimes going under the silly name of Red Eared Sliders no doubt called by children in America because they look like they are sliding down ramps into water?
Oh wait or have I got this correct?
I filmed two of these four miles apart and one of them I know and have posted films and photos of it previously. One I have not, lol.
Not spotted by me previously a Red Eared Terrapin of the North American Clemmys ... errrr or is that Macroclemmys genus. Sometimes going under the silly name of Red Eared Sliders no doubt called by children in America because they look like they are sliding down ramps into water?
Oh wait or have I got this correct?
I filmed two of these four miles apart and one of them I know and have posted films and photos of it previously. One I have not, lol.
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