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Hello and welcome
I have always had a keen interest in wildlife and the great outdoors;
I was an Angler for over 30 years but gave it up a few years ago to
concentrate on photographing wildlife. I lived in Runcorn; Cheshire a
short distance from the M56 that gave me great access to the Wirral,
Northwales and Lancashire, with some great countryside on my doorstep
I didn't have to travel too far in search of wildlife and photographic
opportunities.
Some of my wildlife photographs range from as far afield as Cuba,
Antigua, Saint Martin, Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic, Tuscany ,
Corfu, Turkey, Spain, Portugal.
I now live in the Charente area of western France.
Bemton Cliffs
RSPB Bemton Cliffs in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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Last day in France
My last day in France
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Map Butterfly
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Ringlet
Marbled White Butterfly
Marbled White Butterfly
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Longhorn Beetle
Longhorn Beetle
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Trichodes alvearius
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Carpenter Bee
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Carpenter Bee and the Crab Spider
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Wall Lizard
Wall Lizard
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Wall Lizard hunting for insects in a Hydrangea bush
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Grasshoppers and Crickets
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Mixed bag of insects to be identified
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Hoopoe in the Garden
As I was watching Black Redstarts hunting insects next to the wildflower bed a Hoopoe flew in to feed at the bottom of the garden.
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Black Redstart
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Many different types of Shield Bugs can be found in the garden
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Dor Beetle
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Stag Beetle
Late one evening I found this Male Stag Beetle making its way across the garden I also found a female Stag Beetle.
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I struggled to get a photograph of them as they would not keep still long enough to get a good shot.
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Trip Report
Back from France after a busy week working on the house and garden, that left no time to take any photographs
other than insects in the garden.
After arriving on Monday morning; the first job was to cut the grass which was very long after 8 weeks of being left to grow. On my last visit I scattered some wildflower seeds which are now attracting lots of insects.
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As I cut the grass under the watchful eye of a Little Owl in the barn next door I managed a few shots using my 300mm F4 (not the lens I wish I had with me but that’s all I could fit in my hand luggage on the plane).
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Not the best of shots using the 300mm F4
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More later
All the Grebes
Grebe photographs
Slavonian Grebe
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Red Necked Grebe
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Great Crested Grebes
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Little Grebe
Black Necked Grebe
Grebe Week
it's Grebe week with a selection of photographs take last week.
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Richard the Lionheart
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We are back in France for a week and hoping for some good weather as we intend to explore some of the local sites.
On our Last trip we passed Chateau de Montbrun the place where Richard the Lionheart died.
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Black Redstart taken in the garden on the last visit
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Western whip snake another visitor to the garden.