Wildlife pictures

[British Red]

Here are a few of mine ...we'll start with flutteries


Hummingbird Hawk Moth by British Red, on Flickr


Comma Butterfly by British Red, on Flickr


Green Oak Longhorn Moth by British Red, on Flickr


Red Admiral by British Red, on Flickr


Peacock by British Red, on Flickr



Faded Glory by British Red, on Flickr


Speckled wood (small) by British Red, on Flickr


Chalk Hill Blue Open by British Red, on Flickr


5 spotted Burnet by British Red, on Flickr


Holly Blue by British Red, on Flickr


ChalkHill Blue by British Red, on Flickr


Adonis Blue Male by British Red, on Flickr


Peacock by British Red, on Flickr


Brown Argus by British Red, on Flickr


5 spot burnet mating by British Red, on Flickr


Silver Y Moth in flight by British Red, on Flickr

Ringlet Butterfly by British Red, on Flickr


Small Skipper Butterfly by British Red, on Flickr


Speckled Wood by British Red, on Flickr


Brimstone Butterfly by British Red, on Flickr



small white butterfly by British Red, on Flickr

 

[British Red]

Random Flies, Bees and wasps


Fly by British Red, on Flickr


Fly by British Red, on Flickr


Flying Bumble by British Red, on Flickr


fly sex by British Red, on Flickr


Hover fly 1 by British Red, on Flickr


Fly on fungus by British Red, on Flickr


Bee Fly by British Red, on Flickr


cluster fly by British Red, on Flickr


Hover fly 2 by British Red, on Flickr


Shiny Fly (poecilobothrus nobilatus) by British Red, on Flickr


Flies mating (Tachina Fera) by British Red, on Flickr


yellow dung-fly by British Red, on Flickr


Large Wasp by British Red, on Flickr


Evening Wasp by British Red, on Flickr


Bee & Bluebell by British Red, on Flickr


Honey Bees in Tree small by British Red, on Flickr


Honey Bee 5 by British Red, on Flickr


Hornet by British Red, on Flickr

 

[wattsy]

what camera/lens do you use? those are some cracking butterfly shots i'm hoping to get some nice ones this summer finally managed to get myself a nice macro lens

 

[British Red]

A lot of those are taken with a compact Canon (SX10IS) that I take for walks. The real close ups of wasps etc. are taken with a Canon 400D and a 60mm macro

 

[Harvestman]

British Red, those are excellent. I especially love the hornet picture.

Can I add that both of the pictures labelled as Hover Fly are the common hoverfly, Episyrphus balteatus.

Fly Sex is actually two sawflies, not true flies.

Two corrections:

Your butterfly labelled Red Admiral is actually a Painted Lady.

Your 5 spotted burnet moths are actually all 6 spot burnet moths. I know, it looks like they only have 5 spots. Everyone says that. There are two spots at the head end, and they look like one. 5 spot burnets only have one spot near the wing tips. All of yours have 2 spots at the wing tip. 6 spot is a lot more common than 5 spot.

Excellent pictures all. Thanks for sharing.

 

[British Red]

Thanks for the info - I'm rubbish at identifications

 

[Harvestman]

Thanks for the info - I'm rubbish at identifications

It has just been pointed out on another thread that yesterday I misidentified an elder as a gooseberry

 

[Gray1100]

Really like the last one of the otter, well done.

 

[shaggystu]

A couple of my (relatively) recent wildlife pics

Cheers,

Stuart

 

[Harvestman]

Some recent ones:

Peacock butterfly. First butterfly photograph of the year for me.

Blue tits

Wild bees at their nest in a dead tree

Honeybee on celandine

Honeybee feeding on willow

Buzzard

Take my word for it, but this is a long-tailed tit agasinst the sunset. I just like the shot.

Jackdaws

Raven missing a wing feather

A flock of dunlin

Solitary black-headed gull

The wood mouse that lives under my shed

Dunnock in my garden

Blackcap taking birdfood

 

[Niels]

Nice pictures harvestman.
Here's some of mine today:

Buzzard:


2013-04-07 11.53.29 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-07 11.53.23 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Mr n Misses swan:


2013-04-07 11.46.05 by Sami knives, on Flickr

Mr. and misses goose discussing their route back to Siberia:


2013-04-07 11.08.07 by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

I like those Niels. They have a sort of 'painted' quality to them

 

[Harvestman]

After drawing on 20 years of entomological experience, I have concluded that this is a fly

 

[British Red]

Since its Spring we all get to feel the sap is rising, so we need to be reminded about the birds and the bees

One have started flying


Bees Flying Spring 2013 by British Red, on Flickr

The other started nesting


Nesting Sparrow by British Red, on Flickr

Its a nice feeling!

 

[Harvestman]

Do you get tree sparrows around your way Red? There's only one site near me, and I don't know where it is.

 

[British Red]

We do - but not so many

 

[maddave]

 

[Harvestman]

Wow! Just lovely.

 

[maddave]

Cheeky lil fella !!!

 

[Niels]

Haha cute!