Lake District Part 2...

…and still not a landscape in site.

Male Beautiful Demoiselle

A pair of Dipper were collecting food for their chicks

Greylag Gosling

Chimney Sweeper Moth

Common Blue Damselfly having a bit of bait

Common Blue mating wheel

Fly

Small White Butterfly

Shield Bug

Marsh Fritillary

Marsh Fritillary

Click Beetle

Probably my favourite image of our long weekend a Marsh Fritillary on an Orchid

Small Pearl-boarded Fritillary

Long Horned Beetle

 

Lake District Part 1...

…and not a landscape image in site. In no particular order, here are just some of the wildlife and flowers seen in a long weekend in the Lake District.

Female Beautiful Demoiselle

Male Beautiful Demoiselle

Common Carpet Moth

Feathered Thorn Moth

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

While taking pictures of the above butterfly my wife said she had seen a large bird fly into a tree. She thought it was a Wood Pigeon and I did not even think other wise. However when the bird flew out of the tree it was not a Woody but a Tawny Owl. I managed a rubbish shot of it as it flew into a wooded area.

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Green Tiger Beetle

Female Emperor Dragonfly eating what could be a Shield Bug

Old Crow

Fly Orchid

Brown Argus

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Silver Y Moth

Angle Shades Moth

Female Common Blue Damselfly (I think) eating what looks like a moth

I think this flower is called Fox & Cubs or Orange Hawk Weed. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

 

More from Mull

Loch Na Keal had a pair of Golden Eagle, which gave very distant views. Then it was a walk around the bay of Craignure looking for Otters, didn’t see one but Hooded Crows were around. There were also a few Common Gull with chicks, the adult gulls attacked if you got to close so I backed off.
At Grasspoint, there were loads of Orchids and Golden-ringed Dragonfly, and a Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly
A couple of Red Deer Stag were seen on the way to Croggan where we went looking for Otters again, and yet again none were seen however Ringed Plover were running around on the shoreline. On the way back from Croggan, we came across this Common Sandpiper calling from a tree branch. Back at the cottage, our host Geoff had this Garden Tiger Moth, which he and his son had kept from a caterpillar, for me to photograph, a nice surprise on our return.

Golden Eagle

 

Hooded Crow

Common Gull

Common Gull Chick

Common Gull

Golden-ringed Dragonfly



Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly



Orchid

Red Deer Stag

 

Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Common Sandpiper

 

Common Sandpiper

 

Garden Tiger Moth

Garden Tiger Moth