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Posts tagged with "greater"

Bedfords Park: red deer, woodpecker and devils coach horse

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In between my 2 visits to Raphaels Park on Saturday I went up to Bedfords Park. It was quiet, both in terms of people and wildlife, but in the deer pen one of the stags was dozing in the autumn sun

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Pond creatures

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I set a quiz yesterday to ID the pond creatures in this photoThe answers are:
A: Greater pond snail
B: Waterlouse
C: Dragonfly nymph - this is probably a darter dragonfly nymph
D: Lesser water boatman

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Gulls of Skomer

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I saw 4 species of gull while on Skomer. The first species we had a good view of was the lesser black backed gull. A pair were courting each other not far from the path soon after we started walking along the cliff

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Wildwood

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A few photos from an April visit to wildwood. One of the white storks was feeling posey

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Wildlife in Langstone harbour and Southsea seafront

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A month ago I was in Portsmouth, so went on a walk looking for wildlife with my friend Richard. At the southern end of Langstone Harbour we came across a group of birds, which included a flock of redshanks

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Mallards, cormorants and common gulls

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Some photos from last week, last Thursday to be precise, when I went for the usual walk through Raphaels, ise and Bedfords Park. In Raphaels one of the cormorants was hunting in the shallow end

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