Green Carpet

A Green Carpet disturbed at Dunstable STW today.

Oxfordshire

A Four-spotted Chaser basks in the sun at Whitecross Green Wood.



Corizus hyoscyami is a Rhopalid bug which smells of cinnamen. It is usually found on sandy soils and is spreading northwards.



A male Orange Tip nectaring on Cuckoo Flower at Piddington Hill NR

Potton Wood

A pleasant morning at Potton Wood this morning to 'twitch' an orchid - Early Purple Orchid.



A Green-veined White on Cuckoo Flower

Wood White - 05/05/09

Nine species of Butterfly at a location in Buckinghamshire, one of which was new to me - a few Wood White were either constantly moving in the sun, or sitting still in the gloom making photography a challenge !



Another chance to see Grizzled Skipper.



Herb Robert Geranium robertianum



A female Minotaur Beetle (Typhaeus typhoeus) on the heath at Cooper's Hill NR, Ampthill in Bedfordshire. It is one of about sixty species of dung beetle found in the UK.

Brown Hare - 04/05/09

Rain and cloud meant few insects today.

A Brown Hare stops and stares.

Kent - 29/04/09

Blue-tailed Damselfly at Dungeness.



A Common Lizard in a shelterd spot by a boardwalk



Hairy Dragonfly - a new one for me.



Ivy-leaved Toadflax Cymbalaria muralison the shingle at Rye Harbour NR - a naturalised plant from the Mediterranean. Likes to grow in walls, paths and rock crevices.

Ahoy Skipper !

Ten species, in total, in the Bedfordshire brickpits on another fine day. On the Callows by Stewartby Lake a Dingy Skipper, three Grizzled Skipper and four Green Hairstreak were on show.







A Large Red Damselfly was on the wing - my first 'dragon' of the season.