Posts tagged with "hawker"
Wednesday, 30. September 2009, 19:13:47
wat, pitsea, hawkers, flesh
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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 intruders
He 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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Monday, 28. September 2009, 08:25:20
report, hanningfield, hawker, migrant
Here are a couple of photos of a migrant hawker I took at Hanningfield.
I was perched on a bush a couple of metres from the ground, as this species often does
Thursday, 24. September 2009, 21:06:58
forest, Bolderwood, hawker, centre
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During my visit to the New Forest I visited Bolderwood and the New forest reptile centre an couple of times. During the visits to the reptile centre I saw a captive adder
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Sunday, 20. September 2009, 17:29:10
keeled, hawkers, forest, darter
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While in the New Forest we visited the well know dragonfly and damselfly site at Crockford Bridge. This site is well known as one of the best places to see the rare southern damselfly, but September is too late in the year to see this species (see
here). On my first visit it was cloudy and a bit breezy, and I did not even see a common darter. All there was of interest was the large species of pond skater
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Monday, 14. September 2009, 18:51:08
collared, lady, hawker, trust
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A couple of weekends ago I finally made it to the Chafford Gorges near Lakeside. There wasn't amazing amount around, due to the time of year and the hot weather but I did finally manage to find a reasonably cooperative brown hawker!
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Thursday, 18. June 2009, 21:46:36
strumpshaw, chaser, hawker, dragonfly
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Carrying on from my last post, here are the dragonfly photos. First up is the 3rd photo I took last weekend, britains rarest dragonfly, in flight!
Not a bad start in my book!
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Friday, 29. May 2009, 19:11:07
brimestone, chaser, butterfly, red
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The first thing that I noticed in Wicken Fen was the tame house sparrows at the cafe
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Monday, 27. April 2009, 18:37:37
chaser, nymph, hawker, damselfly
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Over the Easter holidays there were a number of child groups that did some pond dipping at the Wick Country Park. The first group probably had the best finds, which included this 6+cm long emperor dragonfly nymph (Britain's biggest dragonfly species)
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Tuesday, 23. September 2008, 22:22:17
grass, water, darter, hawker
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If got really behind with my blogging, and there has been no articles on wildlife rather than just trips, and I apologise for that, but I endevour to catch up by the end of this week. Ill start with this report from the Sunday before last at Rainham marshes.
The day started well, with the first of a number of these caterpillers (redd something or other moths, I cant remember or find out!)
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Friday, 19. September 2008, 12:56:37
swan, mating, park, deer
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A quick post on my visit to Bedfords Park last Saturday. The wasn't anything rare on show but I got some nice photos of what was on show. First up the Mute swan pair that have moved on to the lake
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