
Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major157 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 major153 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 major145 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 major155 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 curvirostra131 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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female Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra135 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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Hazel - Corylus avellana152 viewsthe tiny red female flowers of Hazel trees
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female Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea137 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Female Lasioglossum species91 viewsPhotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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female Beautiful Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo129 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)199 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Large Red damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula176 viewsphotographed @ Meathop Moss, this is a female in the dark melanotum form
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Notch-horned Cleg Fly - Haematopota pluvialis169 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 intricarius146 viewsphotographed @ Foulshaw Moss
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Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla187 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)211 viewsphotographed in 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 regulus168 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 regulus171 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 regulus180 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 regulus188 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 regulus185 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)157 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)168 viewsphotographed@ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Hoverfly - female Sphaerophoria species119 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 species120 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)124 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)197 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)194 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Larus fuscus179 viewsI think they could be females, photographed @ Marton Mere, Blackpool
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shot 2 of 4 - "a failed mating attempt"179 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 mating177 viewsthe female settles at the nest
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major235 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 major236 viewsthis female was busily drumming away - I didn't think the females drummed??
photographed @ Stanley Park, Blackpool
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152 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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150 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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168 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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161 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum187 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Meadow Plant Bug - Leptopterna dolabrata (female)221 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula173 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula169 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula169 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula170 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus186 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 nisus184 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 aeruginosus258 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus225 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus186 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 aeruginosus179 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 aeruginosus180 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 aeruginosus193 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus182 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus181 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus169 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus170 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus169 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus177 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus166 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus162 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 aeruginosus177 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 aeruginosus174 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 aeruginosus173 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 aeruginosus174 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 aeruginosus196 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum159 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum144 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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I'm thinking it's a female ;-)117 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus179 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 behaviour235 viewstwo males here competing for the attention of the nearby females
photographed @ Stanley Park Blackpool
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta531 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta174 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta160 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta153 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta156 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta171 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta160 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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female Sparrowhawk- Accipiter nisus160 viewssheltering from the rain @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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mating Common Blue butterflies (Image 1 of 10)172 viewsThe male spots the female & approaches from the rear - ooh err missus, she'll do
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum164 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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