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Scarce emerald damselfly at Wat tyler

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Ok after the false alarm before, here is the genuine article: a scarce emerald damselfly

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Rainham marshes

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Well Im starting to catch up to the present now, Im only a week or so behind. Here are the photos from a visit to RSPB Rainham MArshes. Unfortunately all the photos have a blue hue/bias to them: this is because the white balance changed itself to 'tungsten' - probably while in my bag after I put the camera away while on auto off. It came as quite a relief when I found out as I thought the sensor/processor was broken in my camera!

Anyway, at Rainham some roach were swimming in one of the ditches

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Bedfords park - insects

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On bank holiday Monday I headed up to Bedfords Park. That weekend there was a mass influx of painted lady butterflies, and I saw 8 on the walk in towards the lake

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Wat tyler - Dragonflies

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In the last week at Wat Tyler there has been a great influx of starlings and the fledglings. The population must have reached around a thousand at one point. On Thursday I caught a starling feeding a juvenile

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Moth

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Just a couple of photos of a moth that flew onto my room a while back. There both taken with my Panny fz7 and the Raynox DCR - 150 macro adapter attached.

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Cleaning the pond and a visitor

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On tuesday I noticed a leaf on my jacket, which was lying on my bed - except it wasn't. It was this

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Darland Banks and riverside country park

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Today on the way home I took a couple of large diversions. First up was Darland banks, a chalkhill nature reserve run by Kent Wildlife Trust. Entering the reserve I noticed a colourful 'fly' and knew instantly what it was since I've wanted to photograph one since I got my camera: a ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita), and type of jewel wasp.

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