A throwback pic, of a few years past now. When I had more time with my Nikon and more sunshine, nature and time to enjoy it…
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Singing Stonechat
Nikon
A drop in time
Macro photography with oil drops, but using some food colouring as well this time, to try and vary the colours. I know you can probably create photography and art like this with AI, but there is something very satisfying with it being a ‘live’ project where you can’t decide on anything, the drops do what they like and you either capture the moment (clearly), or you don’t.
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Grey Dagger Caterpillar
Had a few caterpillars this year, but a late one popped up on the blueberry bush chomping its way towards changing.
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Green Lacewing
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Candy-striped Spider
A lovely little spider on the lemonbalm, a candy-striped one.
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Beautiful Birds
Some throwback pics of awesome birds.
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Beetles 2024
Been an interesting week for beetles, still lots of ladybirds but some others too.
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World Bee Day 2024
It’s been exciting for weeks now, the garden has been busy. Here’s a selection since last world bee day, and previous years’ posts 🐝
And two bee related post of an awesome little Blue Mason bee and the Blue Mason bee rescue.
Blue Mason bee recue
Now I’ve seen one, I keep spotting them. Got to get a few proper close ups after rescuing one from a horrific fate. I happened to be watching the bee hotel with my camera, and this little guy was checking out the vacancies.
But, it just so happened the bottom left corner had been taken by a large spider I had already noticed and named ‘The Monster’. His web was on the front and side of the bee hotel, and just as I realised this wasn’t a good spot for web coverage, the little bee caught his wing in it!
In a flash the spider was out of the hole and making his way to the struggling bee. I swiped near the bee and the spider backed off, giving me a few more seconds to try and find something to rescue the bee with. A short bamboo pole was to hand, so that had to do.
It took a little while for the bee to recover, one leg had a sticky bit of web on it for a while, and one wing looked a bit busted up. I wondered whether I had doomed it to a slow and lingering death rather than a quick and horrific one. But I stayed with it, trying to help remove the web, giving it some flowers to help and see if it was enough. It was, and it flew away a short while after.
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Garden spiders
After downloading some of last years photos finally from my camera, amd this years so far, it seems there have been quite a few spiders. So I put them together to show how many different spiders you can get in a small garden.
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