Sometimes .....you go out birding and all you get is a portrait of a pigeon and a dirty swan 😂
But you know ..... thats still all good with me. I love being outside in nature.
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A couple of hours around Frampton this morning where the Merlin evaded me yet again. Then hot footed it over to Lincoln to see a lifer in the way of this beautiful Smew.
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Quick walk round some local woods today, 4 new birds for my Lincs year list, 136 now. And another lifer in the way of this Marsh Tit.
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Coming in hot !!!!!
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) landing on the North Delph of the River Witham.
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Beautiful female Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).
Managed to get quite close after it caught prey in the garden.
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Otter once again this morning but too brief for photo so here's a male Muntjac. Clear movement of continental Blackbirds with the Fieldfares and Redwings.
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This is the tiniest Ladybird I've ever seen and a species I've presumably overlooked before now. 24 Spot Ladybird - Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata - is not very common. Features: very small, reddish pronotum and short hairs. #ukwildlife #beetles #lincswildlife @lincswildlife.bsky.social
Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) on a bramble flower earlier in the year.
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After a short bimble round the woods this morning I found these absolutely tiny fungi.
I think it’s maybe Beechleaf Bonnet (Mycena capillaris)
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A male Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) just coming into land on a floating reed.
Just need to up the shutter speed slightly next time.
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The female Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) sits on the same reed with its own nymph skin after it crawled out of the water to moult into the adult form.
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Female Emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator) laying eggs on a submerged reed.
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Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) on a nettle.
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Not something you might spot every day ....
A Scorpion Fly (Panorpa communis).
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More #fungi from this morning. Popped up in the middle of a lawn.
Brown roll-rim (Paxillus involutus)
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I missed #fungifriday yesterday so here is a belated Golden Waxcap (Hygrocybe chlorophana) on Lincolnshire grassland.
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An Ichneumon Wasp (Dolichomitus imperator) sat on a thistle head.
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Another one from earlier in the year.
A male Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus).
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Juvenile Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) sat in hawthorn scrub.
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Nice pair of Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) from earlier in the the year.
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Won’t be long till these guys return to my local patch.
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris).
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Cool visitor to the trail cam recently. Nice change from the Muntjac and Foxes (and cats!).
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Incredible sight of a bee swarm murmuration here in the Lincolnshire Wolds #uknature #LincsWildlife
This Meadow Brown and Small White were willing to pose for me today.
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A yellow tailed moth, it amazes me that there's a whole different world flying around at night.
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Spotted Longhorn Beetles - Ruptela Maculata
Lots of Spotted Longhorn Beetles in Chambers farm woods today whilst looking for White Admirals. This pair were too busy to bother about having their picture taken.
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