Eleventh and twelfth of October and seventeenth of April

Eleventh of October 2019

Just pics of my day

Rose by my back garden gate

Rugby field heron

Great crested grebes are my favourite bird. 

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Twelfth of October

This magnificent garden spider has a small fly wrapped up for dinner

Bluetits are agile wee birds and not the easiest to catch long enough to photograph

View to the south east above the pond.

This small hawthorn stump is about fifteen centimetres across and sports various fungi at almost every time of the year.

My back gate rose encore.

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Friday the Seventeenth of April 

This lady had at least five ducklings and is now down to three.

Nature red in tooth, beak and claw; predators have to eat.

Sundry hoverflies

Speckled woods are becoming quite common now.

Couple of green veined whites. The female is raising her body in invitation to the male.

Beeflies like garlic mustard.

I didn't see the tiny passing fly until I looked at the photograph.

One of the turtles basking on their log.

Two small tortoiseshells platonically feeding on a dandelion.

Like all butterflies, peacocks often bask in the sun.

I presume that they need it to give them energy to fly. How do moths manage when they fly at knight.

This gorse blossom looks quite like some pictures of crystals.

Lichen beginning to colonise a concrete fence post.

Another basking butterfly - a speckled wood this time.

This is the other turtle - it's obviously surfaced through weed.

No a terrific pic but you can clearly see the white comma that gives it its name.

Comma

Orange tip  on honesty.

This is the 'daddy' swan hurtling like an avenging angel 'cause he'd seen one of the kids having the temerity to leave dry land and swim a few yards onto the water.

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