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Exploring the fauna of Britain

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The New forest reptile centre

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On Monday we visited the reptile centre in the middle of the new forest. It consists of a number of enclosures with all the native reptiles and all the native amphibians except the newts. The first thing I saw was in fact a first for me: a natterjack toad, the UKs rarest amphibian

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Oak bush cricket and a Volucella zonaria hoverfly

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This is the first of a couple of posts on my 'visitors.' If you've be keeping up with my recent posts you will know im stuck inside until I finish my project. But it seems despites nature constant attempts to thwart my efforts to photograph it, it comes looking for me when I don't try for a while! I was sitting at my desk yesterday morning, looked up at the ceiling and saw something hanging upside down. So I caught the fellow - an oak bush cricket It was nice to see alive one, as my sister found a dead one in the bathroom the other day - there obviously dispersing by wing, at night, at the moment

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