My wife and I decided to have another trip to Studley Royal to try and get to see the Red Deer rutting. We did see some of what I would call practice rutting by some of the males but not the real full-on thing that we were hoping for. I think most of the images speak for themselves so notmanywords. Once again, a couple of the images are a bit graphic so do not look if you are sensitive.
Not something you see every day.
We saw this on the way back to the car.
I am way behind putting up the images from my local walks as I have been out on a few occasions and haven’t, in fact, gone through all of the images yet but I’ll get there. Here are some from the 5th (told you I was way behind).
Female Kestrel. I haven’t actually seen the female
catch anything yet.
Male Kestrel out hunting.
The male on a post with what could be a Vole.
He took off and landed on another post with the same Vole.
All thoughts of eating went out of the window when the
female turned up. Spring is just around the corner.
Unfortunately,
they were too far away but this is the first time I have captured this.
The female came past me and landed on what I think is
her favourite tree.
Mistle Thrush.
Two male Roe Deer watched by a female.
The two males had a bit of a dispute which didn’t last
long.
Here are some images from a visit I made to Twizell Woods quite a few days ago now.
Male Broad-bodied Chaser
Photobombed by an Azure Damselfly
In flight
Female Broad-bodied Chaser
Laying eggs
Female Broad-bodied Chaser
Broad-bodied Chasers in a mating wheel
Four-spotted Chaser
Large Red Damselflies
My first Wall Brown Butterfly of the year
Parhelophilus frutetorum/versicolor Hoverfly
Helophilus pendulus Hoverfly
Scorpion Fly
Sawfly
I think this could be a Drain fly but not sure, I know it was tiny.
