Posts tagged with "uk"
Friday, 6. November 2009, 20:25:04
Regulus, goldcrest, hanningfield, uks
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On Monday I ended up at Hanningfield Essex Wildlife Trust nature reserve, where thanks to the dry weatehr we have had this year here in Essex, the reservoir is very low (just above 50% capicity I'm told) so the birds hides were to far from the water for any photography. But just as I was about to give hope of getting anything I noticed a little bird feeding in the hedgerow
A goldcrest
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Tuesday, 1. September 2009, 20:32:39
times, periods, emergent, damselfly
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Recently, after a quick search of the web, I couldn't find an easy reference with all the dragonfly (and damselfly) emergence and flight times on one page. So I decided to make one.
The light blue represents the start and finish of the flight time for each species, with the dark blue being the main flight period. I used Smallshire and Walsh (2004) as the source of this infomation.
The table itself should be used as a guide, rather than an exact calender, since dragonfly emergence and flight times vary due to weather and where you are in the UK with emergence times tending to be later the further north you are. Climate change appears to be affecting emergent times too, with milder winters leading to early emergences and flight times continuing into late autumn.
Happy dragonfly (and damselfly) hunting!
ReferenceD. Smallshire, A. Walsh, 2004,
Britain's Dragonflies, Wild Guides, Apollo Print Management Ltd.
Friday, 7. August 2009, 20:13:36
raft, surrey, fimbriatus, common
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While on Thursley common we encountered 3 interesting species of spider. The first was a wasp spider (
Argiope bruennichi)
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Saturday, 25. July 2009, 18:05:04
little, kestrel, oare, report
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The weekend before visiting Skomer, I was in Kent, and decided to take the new camera setup to Oare marshes, where the extra reach would hopefully come in handy. The first bird to literally land in front of me was this male house sparrow carrying a feather
Presumably it is for it's nest.
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Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 20:27:36
raphaels, of, back, report
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On saturday, after visiting Wake Valley Pond, I popped into Raphaels Park, and I so glad I did, because I was greeted with this sight
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Sunday, 24. May 2009, 21:53:24
chaser, wat, burnet, butterfly
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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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Friday, 15. May 2009, 06:33:56
numerous, kingdom, vole, britain
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After the success of the Britain’s commonest bird post, I thought I’d tackle Britain’s commonest mammal. Finding out the exact population numbers for the mammals found in Britain is a difficult process, due to the secretive and often nocturnal habits of most the mammal species. Due to this some of the numbers have been estimated by recording the density of a species in the habitats in which it occurs and their total population extrapolated by multiplying the density by area of each habitat. This, combined with other factors such lack of recording, has led to some species population estimates being correct only in their broad ranking or even only to the right order of magnitude in some cases. Despite these difficulties population estimates have been published and I have used those from DEFRA’s website in order to create a list of the top five most common mammals in Britain, which is as follows:
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Monday, 4. May 2009, 22:10:02
mouse, deer, american, red
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Carrying on from the previous two posts here are the photos of animals from the Otter and Owl Sanctuary. You can see exactly how tame the deer in the last post was
Sue was trying to encourage it to nibble my bag, but it prefered her coat!
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Wednesday, 29. April 2009, 21:20:13
tit, forest, coal, chaffinch
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Here are the first batch of photos from the visit to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary in the New Forest. They have a number of bird feeders (less than last time though) and the first bird of note was a nuthatch
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Friday, 27. February 2009, 12:27:37
doves, little, raphaels, grey
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On MOnday I thought I'd try out the grey squirrel 'trick' with the fz18. The grey squirrel photos are all uncropped
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