Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, insects, loxley valley, my patch, sheffield on July 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Today I braved the rain and went for a quick walk on my patch - there was only really one big shower, and I actually managed to walk for most of it in one of the few sunny spells of the day!
Very few bird highlights - 4 x drake tufted duck and 1 x baby coot at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, flowers, insects, loxley valley, macro, photography, plants on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few shots taken with the macro setting of the FZ18 - if any of my flower identifications are wrong please let me know!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, insects, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well the new camera’s arrived, and I’m very pleased with it. I had a bit of a walk round with it last night, but haven’t had time to sort all the photos out. Here’s one to be going on with.
I’ll post more photos and more details soon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, foreign jaunts, insects, invasive species, my patch on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
If anyone wondered why I’d been quiet for the last week or so, it’s because I had a week away in Prague. It’s a beautiful city, but it would be off-topic to talk too much about it. Needless to say I kept my eyes open for birds while I was there, though. I missed out [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, insects, loxley valley, ringed birds, sheffield on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s details about the colour-ringed dipper I saw at Loxley Fisheries on Saturday. It really pays to report ringed birds to the BTO, as they’ll put you in touch with the right people, and you can get some great information about individual birds.
This reply is from Dr Stuart Sharp, who now works in the Department [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sheffield, insects, invasive species on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve seen two more of the dreaded harlequin ladybirds since my last post about them. The first was another ‘spectabilis‘ form individual in the living room the other week, walking across the floor. This one was quite sprightly, so undoubtedly different to the half-dead ladybird I found last time, although I found it (or at least [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged insects, sheffield on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just found this bedraggled ladybird climbing up the inside of the front window. I think it’s a melanic variant of a 2-spot, but I’m no expert in insects so feel free to put me right!
Isn’t January a bit early for ladybirds?
EDIT - asking around on a few discussion boards, it seems that I was [...]
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