I cannot believe how…

…long a go it is since I took these images, it is eighteen days, its taken me that long to go through all of the images from Mull that I have neglected everything else. I could have made this Blog, from Twizell Woods, about only one species of dragonfly, the Southern Hawker, but I thought that would be a bit boring so I have added a couple of other dragonflies, oh and a couple of other images.

Apart from resizing this and the next image to fit the Blog, this is the first time I have not had to crop an image of a Southern Hawker (or any dragonfly) in flight.

One of the Southern Hawkers eventually landed.

Another one having a bite of bait.

Female laying eggs.

Male Common Hawker in flight.

Female Common Hawker

Female Common Hawker laying eggs.

Male Common Darter in flight.

Tandem pair of Common Darter.

Frog Hoppers.

This Silver Y moth seems to be checking the fly out by touching its leg with its antenna.

 

Mull Part 1

I have just finished going through all the images I took on the Isle of Mull where my wife and I were on holiday this year. I haven’t a clue which is the best way to do this series of Blogs or even how often to post them so I have divided the images up into what I think go together and I am going to post them one after the other. So here we go with part one and these are some of the Butterflies, Moths and Dragonflies I saw.

Scotch Argus Butterfly a lifer.

Male Golden-ringed Dragonfly

A rubbish record shot of a female laying eggs. I was only able to get this one image of a female.

Another Male

And yet another, we saw quite a few of these large Dragonflies on Mull

Grayling Butterfly this one was hard to spot and when I did spot it I was on the edge of a very high cliff.

Dark Green Fritillary

Speckled Wood

Small Heath

Haworth’s Minor Moth

Haworth’s Minor Moth

Silver Y Moth

Is this a Silver-ground Carpet Moth?

Agriphila tristella?

 

The Lakes

Just got back from a couple of days in the Lake District. Didn’t take many pictures while I was there but here are a few I did take.

Grasmere

Grasmere

Red Admiral

Silver Y

Vase in a window in Sizergh Castle (taken with my mobile phone) not great but I like it.

Sculpture out side the castle (again taken with phone).

We were having a bite to eat sitting out side a café in Ambleside and this Jackdaw kept coming to get whatever food had been left lying around. It was not bothered at all about people being there (taken with phone)

Jackdaw (taken with phone)

Sunset from our room (taken with phone)

The place we stayed at had an aviary in the garden this was in the aviary. I was told it is a Zebra Finch.