A close up photo of two red mason bees mating, whilst perched on a blue muscari flower head. The photo is portrait in orientation, with the muscari flowers on the lef side of the frame. The flower head is made up of what look like littlel blue barrels, hanging downwards, with the petals slightly paler at the liip. The bees are facing up, and are viewed side on. The male is clasping the back of the female, and has an orange/red fluffy body with darker stripes. He has pale orange hairs on his face, and antennae which are noticeably longer that the femails. Although the female is larger in size all that can really be seen of her is her black head and eyes.

I'm slowly starting to feel better after the removal of my disagreeable appendix. Managed 10mins in the garden, to appreciate the ☀️. Not up to managing the camera, but used my phone to snap these two Red Mason #solitarybees having a quickie. #invertebrates #wildlifefrommywindow

A view of a female zebra jumpingn spider, looking down on her slightly from the front. She's standing on a double glazed window, which is reflecting grey, but there's also two reflections of her, underneath her, one from each pane of glass. Her head is canted downwards as if she's admiring how she looks. Her legs and body are finely patterned with little, black, brown, and white hairs, giving her a mottled sort of appearance. Almost like she's been coloured in with fine pencil strokes. Her two main eyes are large for her head, black with white highlights from the camera flash.

Feeling 💩 today, but the 🦓🕴️🕷️ was on the window in the porch, so distracted myself with 10mins of trying to predict what she was going to do next, to get a 📷. I like this one as it looks like she's checking out her purty self in the reflection. #wildlifefrommywindow #arachnid #invertebrates #spider

A head on shot of a small black and white spider, hanging upside down from a white textured plaster ceiling. It has two large black eyes staring at the camera, with a smaller black eye on either side. Its face is mainly white with fine black and light brown details, and a brush of fine black hairs pointing straight downwards. Its body is mainly obscured by its pedipalps, small limbs used for manipulating prey. It's legs are mottled white and black.

I saw a jumping 🕷️ out the corner of my eye. Thought it'd be the Fleecy from before, but it was a ♀️Zebra Jumping #spider. Somehow our untidy porch is habitat for 2 sp. of my favourite fam of 🕷️! Hanging upside down seems to be a hair raising experience! #invertebrates #arachnid #wildlifefrommywindow

The #frog fornication frenzy has slowed down, only one new clump last night. There's a good amount though, which is just as well as a neighbours cat seems to like fresh frog eggs! It's been back every night, but only pays attention to the fresh stuff. A #spawn connoisseur? #wildlifefrommywindow

Still at it! #wildlifefrommywindow #spawn #frogs

1min of frantic froggie fornication from today. I put a security camera by the pond so I could see what they're up to. What a perv! There are easily 30+ of them at it, and a lot of the heads are just the ♂️ as the poor ♀️ is giving him a piggy back. #wildlifefrommywindow #ukgarden #frogs #spawnsurvey

A portrait photo of a vertical seedhead on an Evening Primrose, tall and thin with lots of short brown seedpods jutting out all the way up. At the top a Goldfinch is balanced with seeds grasped in its light grey beak. It has a black and white head with a red forehead. Its shoulders and body are a light brown, with maybe a hint of red (I'm colour blind so not the most reliable!). Its tail is black with white dots at the end, and its wing feathers are similar, but with bright yellow flashes.

Sat down with my 🫖, looked out the 🪟 (which mainly shows the neighbours 🏠) & saw the #FirstBirdOfMyDay. A Goldfinch working its way up the seeds on an Evening Primrose! There were 2 flitting about in the meadow patch, & this 1 munching away. Even got a 📷 through the dirty 🪟. #wildlifefrommywindow

A lull in Sunday soundscape of traffic, drills, and hedge trimmers, allowed me to hear some croaking. Peering at the pond revealed these two in amplexus. Just over a fortnight away from when the first #frog spawn usually appears, not long to go.
#wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

It's a portrait photo in 16:9 format, so tall and thin. The right hand side of the frame bisects the bees face, head on. He has an orange, and pale yellow hairy face with dark black jaw. At the top of his head the hairs are less dense showing his occilli, small little light sensors that help him understand what's going on around him. His eye is like an elongated hemisphere, made up of lots of tiny lenses which are just about clear. It is framed on its left hand side by the hairs at the back of his head, giving it an impression of wearing a furry head dress. Slightly furhter out the dark black foreleg is just in focus as it is folded back underneath his body.

Trying to distract myself from all the💩going on in the world, so took some more photos of Eric. He lost his left antenna in storage so I framed things a bit differently. Will tuck him away now, and try something different. #solitarybees #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #photostack

Lots of Cormorants and a few seals lining the sandbank off #Ramsgate westcliff at low tide this morning. 📷🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🦭🦭🦭💚👍 #winter #wildlifefrommywindow

A portrait profile shot of a bees head and thorax. The bee is looking to the right, with a green/blue background. It's covered in fine hairs, from pale yellow to orange in colour. The whole of the bee is in focus allowing details like the occeli on it's head to be clearly visible. It's tongue is extended, with the central glossa having a bottlebrush like structure on the end. The labial palpa, which extend either side of the glossa to help form a tube to drink nectar, are also visible, as are the galea which support the tongue when it's in use.

An alternative photo of the Orange Vented Mason #bee that I recovered from the nest tubes. I think this lighting, and background is better for showing off the details of his mouthparts. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #insects #solitarybee #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

A portrait profile shot of a bees head and thorax. The bee is looking to the right, with a black background. It's covered in fine hairs, from pale yellow to orange in colour. The whole of the bee is in focus allowing details like the occeli on it's head to be clearly visible. It's tongue is extended, with the central glossa having a bottlebrush like structure on the end. The labial palpa, which extend either side of the glossa to help form a tube to drink nectar, are also visible, as are the galea which support the tongue when it's in use.

When I cleaned out the bee nests in Oct this ♂️ Orange Vented Mason #bee (correct me if I'm wrong!) was in a tube, having died at the back. I kept him for some 📷, this is a focus-stacked composite of 40+ pics. I love the detail on his tongue! #wildlifefrommywindow #solitarybee #invertebrates #insects

Two collared doves sitting on a fence. Other things visible in front of the fence: a severely pruned cotoneaster shrub, a black compost bin, and the trunk of a beech tree. Over the fence: a flowering shrub in the neighbours' garden

Tree blue tits in a shrub bare of leaves. In the background green ivy

Six collared doves today! But of course, I did not manage to photograph them all together. Same for the blue tits the other day: only managed to get three out of the five that were sitting in the same shrub.

#WildlifeFromMyWindow

A close up photo of a spider on a white PVC door. Most of the frame is taken up with the white PVC which has a woodgrain effect embossed in to it. The spider is looking down from the top right corner of the frame. It is mainly dark brown with a light splodge down the middle of its abdomen, like a badly painted racing stripe. It's legs alternate in dark and light brown stripes. It has two large eyes at the front of its head.

Opportunistic snap of a Fleecy Jumping #spider (Pseudeuophrys lanigera) which has taken up residence on our front door (least I think it is, corrections welcome!). It's tiny, about 2mm head to tail! Will try to get better 📸 on a day when I've more 🪫. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #arachnids

A portrait photo of a large black spider. The majority of the frame is covered by light brown wood, in and out of focus. The spider is crouched on the left hand side of the frame with its legs stretched out across the frame to the right hand side. Its legs are a reddish brown, and are obscuring its head. Its large abodomen is predominantly black with some light white hairs around the edge, and white pattern, like an inverted Y, which is made up of small splodges, almost like mosaic tiles.

Happened across a Noble False Widow #Spider in the garden, Steatoda nobilis. She'd set up home in the rotted out center of an old ivy trunk. Only had my #fairphone6 on me, but a good enough 📷 to share for #arachtober. #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

A photo of a light brown spider, with banded legs, and two dark splodges on its abdomen, looking off to the bottom left of the frame. It's resting on a green leaf that is mottled with brown and white blotches.

No camera action for me for a while, so here's a Wolf #Spider from a month ago for #aractober. #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife
#gardenwildlife #invertebrates

A plan view of a eight legged invertebrate that has two long arms reaching out from its head with crab like claws on the end. The body looks like one large reddy brown oval, with the main portion bisected by a lighter line, with each side split into 10 regular sections. The body, arms, and legs, are covered in tiny short hairs, with occaisional longer ones which act as sensory organs.

A pseudoscorpion for #arachtober. A Compost Chernes [pselaphochernes scorpioides] from the garden compost heap.
#wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife #macro

A profile shot of a fluffy bee. She has yellow and black stripes on her abdomen, a fluffy orange downy thorax, and a fluffy head, apart from her dark eyes and antennae. Her hind leg is covered in pollen collected from the Ivy flowers she's resting on. The ivy flowers are like tiny globes with a stalk out the top with the pollen held on the end.

My word, the news is unrelentedly shit at the moment... so I'm switching to my Nature list only on BSky for a bit!

This female Ivy #bee was going her thing last weekend. The ivy was alive with bees, flies, and wasps, which was delightful. 😊 #solitarybees #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #inverts

A photo of a brown bodied 8 Legged creature with scorpion like pincers held out ahead of its body. It is tiny, ~2mm long, and is on a pale green underside of a leaf.

@vannabartlett.bsky.social Success! Very happy to have "discovered" something new. Thank you! I think this might keep me occupied with the 📸 for a big. 😊

I've ordered a copy of the FSC guide, can you give me any pointers ahead of its arrival?
#wildlifefrommywindow #arachnids #invertebrates

A close up photo of a bright yellow flower. One section of the petals is backlit, and has the unmistakeable silhouette of a spider cast upon it.

One from a week or so ago. The Evening Primrose is lasting well, and is providing some late season nourishment. The low evening sun showed that sometimes there's a risk associated with a free meal though! (Another Flower Crab #spider) #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

I managed to catch just a small part of the Swallows flying past #Ramsgate west cliff this evening! 🎥🌞💚👍 #vismig #autumn #wildlifefrommywindow #kentbirding

A portrait, side view, of a thin hoverfly. It's perched verticallly on a pink petal which is dotted with rain drops. The petal stretches into the foreground, becoming out of focus. The back ground is the out of focus pink petals on the other side of the flower. The fly has large black eyes and two stubby antennae. The torso has light brown hairs on its brown shiny body. The tail has white and black markings which, although not visible from this angle, give it its ladder backed name,

It's been a quiet time for me with the camera, for various reasons. Couldn't resist this Ladder Backer Hover #fly though. It was a cool, wet, morning and it was waiting on the Musk Mallow for some sun to warm it up. #wildlifefrommywindow #diptera #invertebrates #insects #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

A portrait photo of a butterfly perched on a flower seed head. The seed head has five prongs reaching up, light brown dried out fingers, and the butterfly is perched on one of these and is angled down and to the right. It's white and black striped antennae stretch out at the front, and it's right eye is just visible from behind the nearest wing which is edge on. The furthest wing is angled to show off the irridescent blue sheen that emerges from the mainly brown colouring. Around the hind edge of the wing are white panels with black dots in them, with orange splodges on the edge.

I'm confined to the sofa today, so another photo of the female Common Blue #butterfly from last weekend to end #invertefest for me. #wildlifefrommywindow #insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

A landscape macro photo of a butterfly wing. It is close enough to show the individual scales that make up the wing surface, and so looks like a pixellated image. The wing section is predominantly red, with some black splodges that contrast highly. There is one section of light blue scales, and the wing edge has a white lining. The wing is quite tattered.

I found a hind wing from a Red Admiral #butterfly (?). Possibly from a bird attack, maybe it escaped. 🤷 With every magnifying device fitted to the 📷 I managed this photo, which shows the scales nicely. #invertefest #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #insects #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

A pale yellow spider, with some tonal variation in stripes on its body, resting on some small purple flowers (which collectively make up one flower head on a buddliea plant). Its front legs are curved into its mouth as it manipulates a small fly it has caught.

Lack of variation for todays #invertefest 📷, again. However it is a different Flower Crab #Spider. This one much smaller, ~5mm body length, & on a buddliea. It's not in a traditional pose as it is shovelling a tiny fly into its mouth. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

A portrait photo which has old, slightly dishelvelled, red petals fanning out from the middle of the left hand side. From behind the middle petal, on either side, the legs of a bug hiding on the reverse can be seen. Just below the petal, about halfway across the frame, enough of the insects body is visible for one eye to be seen, and the black and white striped antennae are also protruding.

I couldn't find something different in the garden for todays #invertefest photo, so went for a different composition instead. Someone's playing peek-a-boo!

#wildlifefrommywindow #BugSky #invertebrates #insects #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

[it's ANOTHER Sloe Bug]

A portrait photo of a yellow spider, which is reaching out from the top right corner of the frame, where it is perched on a single blue petal from a Scabious flower. Other than the lightish green stem of the plant crossing the frame to the bottom left the rest of the background is dark green and blurred. This contrasts with teh bright yellow of the spiders out stretched legs as it waits for a passing insect to catch.

It's a bit blustery here today and this Flower Crab #spider was hanging onto a Scabious in the meadow patch like grim death. #wildlifefrommywindow #invertefest #invertebrates #arachnid #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

A portrait photo of some dusky red cone flowers, but the focus of the photo is a female butterfly who is facing the camera with her legs spread, and wings slightly parted. The distant background is unfocussed light green. The butterfly has a furry blue body, and wings which are mostly brown, but with an irridescent blue tint.

There were a couple of ♀️ Common Blue #butterflies sunning themselves on the cone flowers at the weekend. #invertefest #invertebrates #insects #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #gardenwildlife

A portrait view of a small disc shaped insect sat on a pale yellow petal which extends like a tongue from the top of the frame, with its tip ending just in frame at the bottom. The background is a dark green blur. The insect is facing the camera, with its eyes in focus and its antennae stretching out either side, with three cigar shaped segments in each. The bug is a dark brown, and it has hairs protruding from its body.

A last stage Sloe #Bug nymph posing on a cone flower petal this weekend. AKA the Hairy Shield Bug, this species seems to be by far the most common shield bug in our garden. #invertefest #wildlifefrommywindow #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife #invertebrates #insects

A portrait close up of a tiny bee half facing the viewer, whilst standing on the green flowers (with the odd white petal) of a Marjoram plant. The bee has light brown fur on its face, and a patch of yellow above its jaws. Its thorax is also covered in light brown fur, its legs has yellow knees, and feet, with dark brown 'shins'.

Spent a little time this afternoon knelt by the Marjoram watching the Common Furrow #bees coming and going. They're dinky little #solitarybees (the face is a little over 2mm across) and they don't ever seem to stay still! #wildlifefrommywindow #ukwildlife #invertebrates #insects