Full-colour Brock

 

 

Fauna, Badger, June 2015

 

After a succession of poor night-time photos, we finally get one in the late evening daylight of a badger, Meles meles. (more…)

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‘Of splendour in the grass’

 

 

Grass, Yorkshire Fog, provisional identification, June 2015

 

There’s an abundance of flowering grasses so a line from Wordsworth’s poem of the same name captures the fleeting moment. (more…)

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‘ … as empty spaces also become orchids …’

 

 

Flowers, Common Spotted Orchid, June 2015

 

From ‘Wild Orchids‘ by Colin Carpenter. (more…)

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Unique among UK butterflies

 

 

Butterfly, Speckled Wood, June 2015

 

Speackled Wood is the only butterfly of the British Isles that can overwinter in 2 stages, as both a larva and pupa. (more…)

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‘Lion’s tooth’

 

 

Flowers, Dandelion, June 2015

 

The common name Dandelion is said to derive from the French, ‘dent de lion‘. (more…)

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Covered in pollen

 

 

Insect, Bumblebee, Buff-tailed, provisional identification, June 2015

 

First recording of a Forest Cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus sylvestris. (more…)

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‘Buds that open only to decay …’

 

 

Flowers, unidentified, June 2015

 

Even in Summer … a line from Flowers  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (more…)

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Hover or Flower Fly

 
 

Inect, Hovery Fly, unidentified, June 2015

 

Looked more yellow than orange-banded so possibly Syrphus vitripennis. (more…)

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Ragged by name

 

 

Flowers, Ragged Robin, June 2015

 

Ragged Robin – its common name is probably simply due to it being a red flowered plant with deeply divided ‘ragged’ petals, suggests Stevens. (more…)

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Home is a tree guard

 

 

Spider, unidentified, June 2015

 

Unidentified Arachnid. (more…)

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Hedge Nettle or Hedge Woundwort

 

 

Flowers, Hedge Woundwort, June 2015

 

Stachys sylvatica. (more…)

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Tree bumblebee

 

 

Insect, Tree bumblebee, June 2015

 

Bombus hypnorum on Marsh Thistle, Cirsium palustre. (more…)

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