
Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major176 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major171 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major175 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major178 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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female Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra159 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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female Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra150 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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Hazel - Corylus avellana175 viewsthe tiny red female flowers of Hazel trees
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female Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea165 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Female Lasioglossum species106 viewsPhotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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female Beautiful Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo150 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)214 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Large Red damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula198 viewsphotographed @ Meathop Moss, this is a female in the dark melanotum form
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Notch-horned Cleg Fly - Haematopota pluvialis191 viewstheir eyes maybe amazing/fascinating, but female Clegs gorge on blood & give a painful bite
photographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Hoverfly - female Eristalis intricarius169 viewsphotographed @ Foulshaw Moss
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Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla205 viewswe've had a couple of males visit the garden previously, but this was the first female Blackcap to visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)235 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus217 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus193 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus193 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus196 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus201 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus204 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Sphaerophoria scripta (female)186 viewsSHOT 1 of 6, 20/08/2013 @ 14:22
photographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Meadow Plant Bug - Leptopterna dolabrata (female)196 viewsphotographed@ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Hoverfly - female Sphaerophoria species144 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
the females can't be identified any more precisely than this unless examined in a lab - you'd have to really want to know what species it is to go to those lengths
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Hoverfly - female Sphaerophoria species141 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
the females can't be identified any more precisely than this unless examined in a lab - you'd have to really want to know what species it is to go to those lengths
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Sphaerophoria sp. (female)144 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)221 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)214 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Larus fuscus198 viewsI think they could be females, photographed @ Marton Mere, Blackpool
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shot 2 of 4 - "a failed mating attempt"201 viewsthe male makes a clumsy lunge towards the female
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Shot 1 of 11 of a pair of Grebes mating194 viewsthe female settles at the nest
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major259 viewsthis female was busily drumming away - I didn't think the females drummed??
photographed @ Stanley Park, Blackpool
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major257 viewsthis female was busily drumming away - I didn't think the females drummed??
photographed @ Stanley Park, Blackpool
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189 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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179 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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203 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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181 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum211 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Meadow Plant Bug - Leptopterna dolabrata (female)243 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula193 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula186 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula183 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula185 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus208 viewsphoto'd through the double glazing & in poor light (ISO1600 & 1/30th sec shutter speed - yikes)
wearing a green syrup as a cunning disguise ;-) this female Sparrowhawk checks out the birds visiting the feeders in our garden
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus203 viewsphoto'd through the double glazing & in poor light (ISO1600, lens wide open @ F6.3 & 1/125th sec shutter speed)
wearing a green syrup as a cunning disguise ;-) this female Sparrowhawk checks out the birds visiting the feeders in our garden
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus274 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus239 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus208 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus194 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus196 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus215 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus192 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus202 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus190 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus189 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus185 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus198 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus183 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus186 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus194 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus201 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus201 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus196 viewsa record shot of a Grey Heron mobbing the visiting Marsh Harrier
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus219 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum181 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum169 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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I'm thinking it's a female ;-)138 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus198 viewsa crappy photo & you can just about make this female out, after landing on my neighbours garage roof i had to photo her through various foliage.
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Mallards displaying courtship behaviour261 viewstwo males here competing for the attention of the nearby females
photographed @ Stanley Park Blackpool
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta572 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta189 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta186 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta176 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta177 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta194 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta185 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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female Sparrowhawk- Accipiter nisus178 viewssheltering from the rain @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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mating Common Blue butterflies (Image 1 of 10)182 viewsThe male spots the female & approaches from the rear - ooh err missus, she'll do
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum183 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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