Work

 A few images taken over a couple of days at work this month.

One of at least three Tawny Owl chicks that were sending Jays ballistic. This was one of two I managed to get pictures of but, as I said, I heard at least three altogether and I also saw the adult bird flying off.

A second chick. I was taking pictures of insects so I had a 105mm macro lens on the camera when I got these images of the Owls so wrong lens and all the wrong settings on the camera.

One of three Puss Moth Caterpillars. In this image it has what look like red streamers at the rear.

In this image they have gone.

A second Puss Moth Caterpillar.

A close up.

The next few image are of the instar of the Common Green Shieldbug.

Click Beetle.

Pupa of a Harlequin Ladybird.

Ichneumon Wasp.

Mating Snipe Flies.

Cranefly.

Ringlet Butterfly.

Scotland part four

 Because the weather wasn’t great, we decided to pay a visit to Scone Castle. I was putting the camera into the car when a Song Thrush landed on a fence right next to the car so I fired off a few shots before it flew off. At Scone a couple of pairs of Oystercatchers were in the garden one pair with at least one chick.

Song Thrush.

Oystercatcher.

Oystercatcher chick.

Pine-cone Bug a first for me.

Downlooker Snipefly.

Cranefly.

Twizell Woods

 Looking around Twizell Woods recently for Large Red Damselflies which unfortunately I didn’t find. I did however find loads of other wildlife.

Helophilus pendulus Hoverfly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly.

Epistrophe eligans Hoverfly.

Flower Fly?

Platycheirus Sp. Hoverfly.

Platycheirus Sp. Hoverfly hovering.

Flower Fly?

Shaerophoria Sp. Hoverfly.

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly hovering.

Baccha Sp. Hoverfly.

Yellow Swarming Fly.

Leaf Beetle.

Leaf Beetle.

Flea Beetle.

Reed Beetle.

Weevil.

Leaf Hopper.

Nymph of a Planthopper.

Another Nymph.

14-spot Ladybird.

Anthomyia genus.

Crane Fly.

St Mark’s Fly in water.

A not very good picture of a Lace Hopper.

Tree Bumblebee.

Buzzards.