Cley
Young Shellduck bathing. (Tadorna tadorna)
Mallard bathing. (Anas platyrhynchos)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ocheropus)
&
Wood Sandpiper
Little Ringed Plover
Spoonbill
Oare Marshes - Kent
A party of Golden Plover in summer plumage.
3 Curlew Sandpiper
2 Little Stint
2 Whimbrel
Green Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
&
Bonaparte's Gull
on the mud
Malling Down - Sussex
Eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis)
Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
Dwarf Thistle (Cirsium acaule)
Wild Marjoram (Origanum vulgare)
Amberley Wild Brooks - Sussex
Roesel's Bush Cricket (Metrioptera roesellii)
Short-winged Cone-head (Concephalus dorsalis)
Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonius)
Meadow Sweet (Filipendula ulmaria))
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense)
Levin Down - Sussex
Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata)
Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
Round Headed Rampion (Phyteuma orbiculare)
Stemless Thistle (Cirsium acaule)
Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris)
Farlington Marshes - Hampshire
The Point
The Point
The Lake
The Point
Mill Lawn Brook - New Forest
Beautiful Damoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)
Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)
Fringed Water Lilly (Nymphoides peltata)
Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens)
White Legged Damselfly (Platycnemis pennipes)
Stoney Cross - Hampshire
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas)
Just couldn't find a Bog Orchid though.
Minstead - Hampshire
On a small stream nr Minsted
About ten males and one female
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)
Four Marks - Hampshire
Violet Helleborine (Epipactis purpurata)
Only about four left with decent flowers.
Cley
Up to five Green Sandpipers (Tringa ocheropus) scittering about.
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Hanworth
Four spikes tucked between the shed and the water butt.
Tow spikes between the Mahonia and the Purple stemmed Philadelphus
Two more spikes than last year.
Broad Leaved Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine)
Cley
Marsh Harrier - Juvenile (Circus aeruginosus)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
A Sun Bittern in disguise
Whimbrel bathing (Numenius phaeopus)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
Titchwell
Not a swan but a rather beautiful young Avocet.
Avocet (Recurvirostra avocetta)
Wonderful wing contortions of the Juvenile Black headed Gull
Black Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Glorious wing markings of the Juvenile Med Gulls
Mediterranean Gull (Larus melanocephalus)
Ruff (Philomacus pugnax)
Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Woodwalton Fen - Canbridgeshire
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)
Common Hawker - Female (Aeshna juncea)
Marmalade Fly (Episyrphus balteatus)
Heliophilus Sp?
Frampton Marsh - Lincolnshire
Black tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)
Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
Reed Warbler & Sedge Warbler
Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
3 Yellow Wagtails
Spotted Redshank
2 Little Gulls
Greenshank
Whimbrel
Common Sandpiper
Spoonbill
Holy Island - Northumberland
Bog Pimpernel
Bog Pimpernel (Anagallis tenella) & Variegated Horsetail (Equisetum variegatum)
Common Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza fuschii)
Creeping Willow (Salix repens)
?
Mare's Tail (Hippuris vulgaris)
Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris)
Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)
Northern Marsh Orchid ( Dactylorhiza purpurella) ?
Brookweed (Samolus parviflorus)
Sliverweed (Potentilla anserina)
Shoreweed (Littorella uniflora)
?
But the Holy Island Helleborine is conspicuous by it's absence.
Where ?
Another year.
Kielder Water - Northumberland
Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)
Hare's Tail Cotton Grass (Eriophorum vaginatum)
Border Mires. A conservation history.
With so little rain the mire here was almost completely dry. The pond at the top of Falstone Moss was a shadow of its usual self.
Ling (Calluna vulgaris) just about to come into flower.
?
Down by the road
Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)
Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica)
Thistle Sp (Cirsium Sp)
and
a
spider
covered in mites?
Williamston - Northumberland
Down among the tress by the banks of the river.
Dune (The Tyne) Helleborine (Epipactis dunensis subsp tynensis )
Bishop Middleham Quarry - Durham
Chalk Fragrant Orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea)
Dark Red Helleborine (Epipactis atrorubens)
Salthouse-Gramborough Hill
Sea Lavender (Limonium vulgar)
Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
Whitethroat parent still with the odd snatch of song.
Young Whitethroat hiding in the Elder.
Still feeding the young ones.
A young Whitethroat, much fresher and browner on the back.
Working hard to catch flies for pretty much fully fledged youngsters.
You can see the damage to the flight feathers from a long summer of breeding.
Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
Gramborough Hill
and just down the road at The Iron Road
Sphaerophoria Sp
Stephen Falk's Sphaerophoria Flicker page.
Wild Celery (Apium graveolens)
Upton Fen
Four Spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
Ruddy Darter - Female (Sympetrum sanguineum)
Potter Heigham Marshes
Bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris)
Frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-rannae)
Heliophilus Sp (Possibly H hybridus - Male ?)
Norfolk Hawker (Aeshna isosceles)
Tubular Water Dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa)
&
Hobby
Winterton
Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)
Marram Grass (Ammophila arenaria)
Prickly Saltwort (Kali turgidum)
Sea Holly (Eryngium marítima)
Sea Rocket (Cakile marítima)
Sea Sandwort seed pods. (Honckenya pepoides)
Cley
Grayling (Hipparchia semele)
Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
&
Whimbrel overhead calling.
Metton
Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
Common Green Lacewing (Chrysoperla carnea)
Scaeva Sp (probably the common one Scaeva pyrastri)
Plumose aristide
You can just make out the re-entrant outer cross vein.
A furry Bumble Bee mimic. Probably a female. Resembles Bombus lucorum.
Volucella bombylans (The yellow form)
Stephen Falk's Volucella bombylans page on Flicker
Stone Pit Wood
Bramble & Friend
Helophilus Sp? Possibly (Helophilus pendulus)
White Admiral (Limenitis camilla)
White Letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album)
Stone Pit Wood
Comma (Polygonia c-album)
Possibly Syrphus ribesii ?
Stephen Falk's Syrphus ribesii page on Flicker
Syrphus Sp??
Female
Male
Male
Female
Great Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens)
Stephen Falk's Volucella pellucens Flicker page.
Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
Beaded Chrysotoxum (Chrysotoxum festivum)
Yellow & Black Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus)
Silver Washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia)
White Admiral (Limentis camilla)
White Letter Hairstreak (Satyrium w-album)
Eristalsis arbustorum possibly ?
Diffuse mark on the stigma. Dark, thick hind metatarsus. Wing loop present.
Eristalsis intricaria possibly?