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Hello and welcome to the UK WILDLIFE BLOG

This is a blog based mainly on the wildlife found in the Uk, although there is still plenty of interest to those in the rest of the world. The posts are mainly reports of wildlife sites I've visited which can be found here and articles on the wildlife of the UK. These can be found here There is also my regular reports on the heronry at regents park, which can be found here

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Short eared owl on Skomer

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One of the main attactions to Skomer, other than the coastal birds, are the Short eared owls, Asio flammeus.

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Puffin photos from Skomer

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I have loads of puffin photos so I'll split them in to 2 posts (well 2 more on top of the 3 single photo posts in the last week..). First up those taken of them on dry land

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Skomer - Razorbills

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I've taken enough photos in Pembrokeshire to last me a week or two so I may start posting 2 a day at some point! But for now, here are the razorbill photos

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Skomer: fulmars

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Ive managed to process all the photos from skomer now (still more from pembrokeshire to go though!), so I'll start proper with the fulmars.

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Puffin Fratercula arctica

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Im stll going with the editing, so here is another puffin shot, this is my favourite so far

Puffin on Skomer

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Im STILL working my way through 1200 odd images, so here is another of my favourite puffin images from Skomer

Puffin

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Apologies for the lack of post and comments, but Ive been away in Pembrokeshire, which included a visit to Skomer Island, where I found this chapOk its not pin sharp but its one of my best action shots. The conditions wern't perfect either, but more on that, along with more puffins and other pembrokeshire residents probably all this week - if I ever manage to edit all the photos I took!

Scarce emerald damselfly

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Yesterday at work I spotted some large damselflies while leading some pond dipping, which perched with their wings at 45 degrees, a distintive feature of the two emersld damselfly species found in the UK. I headed back with my camera and tooks ome photos, not sure if they were the scarce emerald or the 'noprmal' emerald damselfly.

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guess the animal?

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Can you work out what this is?