Wildlife pictures

[brancho]

See, that's what comes of me being out of date...

Never mind. Great series of pictures as usual Alf.

not your fault mate and you were only trying to help.


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[THOaken]

Butterfly and Adder Monitoring today at Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Saw quite a few species. My Butterfly I'D isn't great, but I saw Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Large/Small Skippers, Ringlet and quite a few others. Perfect weather too. Well, maybe a bit too hot for my Scottish skin.

Marbled White.

 

[gsfgaz]

 

[John Fenna]

Redshank on Orkney - right by the Ring of Brodgar - taken with an Olympus SZ-14 compact


Oystercatcher on Orkney - same camera

 

[Harvestman]

So many good shots on here. I'm always envious of bird shots, as mine are uniformly rubbish.

 

[brancho]

Here are some recent shots from my forays in the grasslands of West Cumbria.


A robber fly I suspect

Robber by alf.branch, on Flickr


Is this a sawfly full of eggs


Unkown by alf.branch, on Flickr


A snipe fly taken with my Zuiko 35mm f3.5 in autofocus on Oly E-M1



Snipe fly by alf.branch, on Flickr


This was in my garden and I am informed is Eristalis pertinax



Eristalis pertinax by alf.branch, on Flickr


A couple weevils making more weevils



mating-weevils by alf.branch, on Flickr


Another garden hoverfly


Hover-fly-2 by alf.branch, on Flickr


Any ID's are welcome

 

[Harvestman]

Great shots Alf, as always. The first one I think is an Empid or a Dolichopodid rather than a robber fly, as it lacks the tuft of hairs between the eyes. I don't know what it is though. Fascinating looking fly.

 

[brancho]

A mixed bag from couple weeks ago.

Some from the garden first


A bee on a climbing hydrangea doesn't seem to be in my book.


Bee-on-hydrangea by alf.branch, on Flickr


The bees seem to like my laurel hedge


Bees-like-Laurel by alf.branch, on Flickr


A bluebottle


Bluebottle by alf.branch, on Flickr


From my dog walks



As far as I can tell this is a female cuckoo bee P.vestallis it was not keen on flying from flower to flower



Female-P-vestallis-possibly by alf.branch, on Flickr


A yellow dung fly as far I can ID


Yellow-dung-fly by alf.branch, on Flickr


Any corrections on ID welcome.

 

[brancho]

Great shots Alf, as always. The first one I think is an Empid or a Dolichopodid rather than a robber fly, as it lacks the tuft of hairs between the eyes. I don't know what it is though. Fascinating looking fly.

Thanks Mike

 

[brancho]

Here are some grasshopper shots from this morning. The first I have managed to shoot.


I am unsure on the ID on this one



Grasshopper by alf.branch, on Flickr


Grasshopper-2 by alf.branch, on Flickr


This is a Mottled Grasshopper as far as I can tell


Mottled-Grasshopper by alf.branch, on Flickr


Mottled-Grasshopper-2 by alf.branch, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

Grasshoppers are very difficult to identify, especially as nymphs, which these are. Top one is probably a common field grasshopper, and the lower a common green grasshopper. Colours are not reliable in either species. Confident that it isn't a mottled grasshopper though. The markings to look at are the white stripes on the thorax. To be honest though, Meadow grasshopper is also possible for all of them. I would want an adult before I could be confident.

Incidentally, nice Wandering Snail in the first pic too.

 

[brancho]

Grasshoppers are very difficult to identify, especially as nymphs, which these are. Top one is probably a common field grasshopper, and the lower a common green grasshopper. Colours are not reliable in either species. Confident that it isn't a mottled grasshopper though. The markings to look at are the white stripes on the thorax. To be honest though, Meadow grasshopper is also possible for all of them. I would want an adult before I could be confident.

Incidentally, nice Wandering Snail in the first pic too.

Thanks for the info Mike.

 

[gsfgaz]

 

[gsfgaz]

Ay

 

[gsfgaz]

 

[crowded-solitude]

My little friend last night at Loch Tay.

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[BushrangerCZ]

Yesterday, Slovakia:

 

[brancho]

A fly

Fly by alf.branch, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

That may be just a fly to you, but it is also a photographic work of art.

 

[Harvestman]

Yesterday, Slovakia:

Oh I like that a lot!