A beautiful morning for a bit of birding on a local patch #TicesMeadow #Surreybirding #UKbirding

Deep neon blue-green damselfly rests on a strappy leaf

A Beautiful Demoiselle from #TicesMeadow for #Sharemondays2025

Orangey-red shiny Common cardinal beetle clinging to a stalk of grass

Blue-tailed damselfly, either an immature male or a female - green, blue and black - resting on a twig

Common blue damselfly male - bright blue and black - resting on a twig

Banded demoiselle damselfly on a strappy leaf. A deep irridescent blue with translucent wings marked by a broad black band.

A few from #TicesMeadow yesterday

Brown and cream Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a leaf in the sun, wings almost fully open

A tiny Grannom Caddisfly with folded veined wings clings to a thorny briar stem

Bright white Greater Stitchwort flowers show off their yellow centres

Tall yellow stems of cowslip open in the sunshine

Beautiful in the sun today at #TicesMeadow
Speckled Wood butterfly, Grannom Caddisfly, Greater Stitchwort, Cowslip 😊

Close-up of a pussy willow head that's gone over - some yellow and white filaments are still sticking out as usual, but a section in the middle droops badly

Another from #TicesMeadow on Friday - pussy willow having a bad hair day!

(Yellow and) grey wagtail perched on a dead twig just above the bank of a stream

Whoop! Finally managed to post an image! PC wanted a reboot, no idea why - everything else seemed to be working OK.
So here's the one I forgot to post last week - one of the lovely two grey wagtails I saw around the stream in #TicesMeadow last Friday 😀

Orange speckled butterfly with frilled edges basks in sun on a wooden post.

Tried 4 times to post an image and just kept getting a black rectangle, so I'm now trying a different image entirely. Fingers crossed for this lovely comma in the sun at #TicesMeadow yesterday