female Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea16 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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male Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea16 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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male Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea16 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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male Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea27 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Deer Ked - Lipoptena cervi9 viewsI found this horrible looking thing scurrying about in my tummy hairs after driving home from Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve, a 90 minutes drive.
Still makes my skin crawl now to think this thing was lodging on me, especially considering they carry Lyme disease, yuck.
Photographed after squishing it!
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Deer Ked - Lipoptena cervi10 viewsI found this horrible looking thing scurrying about in my tummy hairs after driving home from Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve, a 90 minutes drive.
Still makes my skin crawl now to think this thing was lodging on me, especially considering they carry Lyme disease, yuck.
Photographed after squishing it!
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Sand lizard - Lacerta agilis78 viewsRay Lynch talking to Naomi Cornwell of BBC North West about the Sand Lizard reintroduction project on the Fylde Sand Dunes
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Cetti's Warbler - Cettia cetti193 viewsCetti's Warbler at Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool - it's only taken me 12 years to get a shot of one out in the open
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39 views
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40 views
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40 views
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi73 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi63 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi63 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi59 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi64 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Say it with Worms48 viewsa courting couple display to each other, then one coughs up a mouthful of worms which the other gratefully accepts & takes from its beak
photographed @ Leighton Moss RSPB reserve
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Vestal Cuckoo Bumble Bee - Bombus Vestalis89 viewsalso known as Southern Cuckoo Bumble Bee
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Poplar Hawk-moth - Laothoe populi57 viewsfound & photographed on my car windscreen in south Cumbria
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Great Diving Beetle (I think?) - Dytiscus marginalis65 viewsone of two different types of diving beetle seen at Foulshaw Moss on 04/04/15
they spent much of their time climbing out of the water to bask
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Great Diving Beetle (I think?) - Dytiscus marginalis62 viewsone of two different types of diving beetle seen at Foulshaw Moss on 04/04/15
they spent much of their time climbing out of the water to bask
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Firecrest - Regulus ignicapilla89 viewsthis elusive Firecrest very occasionally perched out in the open
photographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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Firecrest - Regulus ignicapilla86 viewsthis elusive Firecrest very occasionally perched out in the open
photographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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Starlings gathering to roost @ North Pier, Blackpool195 viewswhen the tide's out the Starlings often gather in huge flocks on the beach before going into roost on the pier
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Starlings gathering to roost @ North Pier, Blackpool140 viewswhen the tide's out the Starlings often gather in huge flocks on the beach before going into roost on the pier
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina57 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina56 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina53 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina51 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina49 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina49 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Duke of Burgundy - Hamearis lucina49 viewsphotographed in south Cumbria
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Curlew - Numenius arquata101 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca93 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca89 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca96 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca64 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca63 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Teal - Anas crecca60 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa69 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa66 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa66 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa67 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa64 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa69 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa71 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa78 viewsphotographed @ Marshside RSPB reserve, Southport
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus87 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus86 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus85 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus85 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus87 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Mediterranean Gulls - Larus melanocephalus91 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
for details of the history/movements of this Med Gull paste the following link into your browser to check out DJM's blog entry about this bird: -
http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/back-at-nothern-coast.html
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Squabbling Little Egrets - shot 7/1558 viewsafter about a 10 second dunking the submerged Egret managed to re-surface
photographed from the Morecambe Hide @ Leighton Moss RSPB reserve
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Squabbling Little Egrets - shot 15/1567 viewsand finally this one decided to get the flock out of there
photographed from the Morecambe Hide @ Leighton Moss RSPB reserve
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Yellow Dung Fly - Scathophaga stercoraria79 viewssticking its tongue out
photographed in the Véndee, France
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Silphid beetle larvae47 viewsIt's about twice the size as a Woodlouse
photographed in the Véndee, France
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Southern White Admiral - Limenitis reducta53 viewsphotographed in the Véndee, France
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Southern White Admiral - Limenitis reducta40 viewsphotographed in the Véndee, France
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Southern White Admiral - Limenitis reducta42 viewsphotographed in the Véndee, France
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Common Backswimmer - Notonecta glauca134 viewsthis Common Backswimmer in our garden pond kept on clambering out of the water & sunning itself, photographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Common Backswimmer - Notonecta glauca122 viewsthis Common Backswimmer in our garden pond kept on clambering out of the water & sunning itself, photographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Common Backswimmer - Notonecta glauca98 viewsthis Backswimmer has clambered out of the water & onto some foliage, photographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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shot 3 of 4 - "a failed mating attempt"70 viewsshe's having none of it & slides out of the way
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Shot 7 of 11 of a pair of Grebes mating56 viewsopen mouthed
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Ring-necked Parakeet - Psittacula krameri181 viewsphotographed across the road from Stanley Park, @ Blackpool Zoo, this Parakeet was free flying outside of the bird house & is probably the one that's occasionally seen at the park
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Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus137 viewsstepping out onto a frozen mere
photographed @ Marton Mere Nature reserve, Blackpool
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Hoopoe - Upupa epops38 viewsnote the birds throat puffed out as it makes its oop oop oop call, photographed in the garden of the gîte we were renting in the Vendée, France
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Tree Bee - Bombus hypnorum66 viewsfirst seen in the UK in 2001 in the South of England, they've now made their way to Blackpool!
photographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens
Thanks to Dave of - http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/ - for pointing them out
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Tree Bee - Bombus hypnorum65 viewsfirst seen in the UK in 2001 in the South of England, they've now made their way to Blackpool!
photographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens
Thanks to Dave of - http://www.lalows.blogspot.co.uk/ - for pointing them out
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Some sort of eggs on base of pond pump?????137 viewsno idea what these are, seen attached to the base of my pond pump when I took it out of the water to clean
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Some sort of eggs on base of pond pump?????187 viewsno idea what these are, seen attached to the base of my pond pump when I took it out of the water to clean
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Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus42 viewsphotographed in Witherslack, Cumbria (another out of daves lounge window
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus88 viewsthe Sprawk that occasionally visits our garden will not sit out in the open & properly show itself
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(Common) Snipe - Gallinago gallinago78 viewsI was hoping this was my 1st Jack Snipe sighting - but on closer inspection it would seem it's a Common Snipe, never mind. Thanks to the young lady in the hide for pointing it out & my apologies for the incorrect ID.
photographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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Little Gull - Hydrocoloeus minutus91 viewsa 1st sighting for me, photographed @ Marton Mere, Blackpool
(many thanks to chap who pointed it out to me)
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Herring Gull - Larus argentatus52 viewsfired out of a canon?
photographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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Iceland Gull - Larus glaucoides290 viewsDave of http://www.lalows.blogspot.com spotted this Iceland Gull @ Marton Mere on 28/12 & it was still around when I stopped off at the Mere today, thanks to Larry for pointing it out to me.
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus81 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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