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Birth of a grey seal pup

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For this post I will return to my trip to Donna Nook. Here I witnessed one of those great moments of wildlife watching. Grey seal pup being born. Be warned if your eating or squeemish, because I had the camera in hand! Its not too graphic and bloody but you have been warned!

Talking to the wardens this seal mum had been there for a number of days (they usually give birth a day or two after arriving).They were beginning to worry something was wrong.

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Donna nook grey seals

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Here is the creator of yesterdays trail. A grey seal.

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Dragonfly close ups

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A couple of weeks back on a sunny lunch time walk, we came across an area of hawthorn (not far from 'weasel alley' where I photographed the weasel in the last post) that had become a sun trap and was teeming with common darters and migrant hawkers. One common darter was defending his bench from intrudersHe was so obsessed with this bench, when he landed in a bad spot I gave him a gentle nudge and he refused to budge!

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Orange tip butterfly and more

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At the end of last month (the 29th) I was in Bedfords Park and I came across a female orange tip butterfly that seem content to sit and be photographed, which is most unusual for this species. So I got out the raynox macro adapter and took some photos with it on the fz7 and with out on the fz18

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Richmond Park - ducks

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The saturday before last I headed to Richmond Park for so Sue could try out some photography techniques she'd been reading about. I took a lot of photos as I always do when visiting this park, so Ive broken it down into more than one post. In this post I'll cover the ducks, starting with the pintails.

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