Wildlife pictures

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Wander

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Jan 6, 2017
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A Chiffchaff.
Often heard, but seldom seen.

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Keith_Beef

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Yvelines, north-west of Paris, France.
I recently got myself a second-hand DSLR (after several years of prevarication), and I'm trying out different settings. It's a Canon 100D, so the modes work in a way that's very familiar from my old EOS film camera and the G10 I gave SWMBO around 10 years ago.

So, a little trip up to the garden centre yesterday.

A shield bug climbing up a fruit tree of some kind. This is a failure: the lens focussed on the bark of the tree, rather than the insect, and I snapped him before he ran around the other side of the trunk out of view.

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Cherry blossom just about to open.

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Pear in full bloom.

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brancho

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brancho

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Some spiders

A wolf spider with what looks like a pet weavel

Wolf spider and friend by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Another wolf spider

Wolf spider by Alf Branch, on Flickr

An orb weaver in her retreat

Spider at home by Alf Branch, on Flickr

An orb waever that has a paraitic wasp larvae on it. She was still building her web.

Orb weaver and parasite by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Another smaller orb weaver with a parasite a few hundred metres away also building her web

Orb weaver and parasite 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Her underside

Orb weaver and parasite 3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr
 
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Turnstone

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Great pics! But I can't stand those orb spiders. Don't know why, they are fascinating creatures. But looking at them in detail makes me want to run away :sulk:
 
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brancho

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Love those parasite pics. It's amazing what you can miss with the naked eye.

Most people would struggle spotting the spiders especially the second it was still small it will need some feeding up before the wasp has finished with it
Great pics! But I can't stand those orb spiders. Don't know why, they are fascinating creatures. But looking at them in detail makes me want to run away :sulk:

Not an unusual reaction
 

brancho

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Here are some shots from a macro safari on St Bees head which is a real hotspot for mining bees.

Some of the bees I shot

mining bee feeding 3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

mining bee feeding 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Mining bee by Alf Branch, on Flickr

Nomada bee feeding by Alf Branch, on Flickr

I think this is a sawfly

Perched_ by Alf Branch, on Flickr

A courting male spider and his intended I wish I had videoed this guy as his palps were being used like semaphore

Spider courtship by Alf Branch, on Flickr

A spider sunning himself

Spider by Alf Branch, on Flickr
 
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