Duck! no “Buzard” in coming straight at our trail cameras – he actually clipped it with his feet knocking it over.
Duck!
nature spots
Afternoon visitor.
This afternoon we had an uninvited visitor into our conservatory I was able to get a few photographs before I netted this big Dragonfly and released her into the garden.
This Dragonfly is a female Southern Hawker Dragonfly. Length: 70mm
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Spider season.
The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.
Another spider.
Amaurobius fenestralis
The species of spider is widespread in most of Britain. The spider is found in woodlands under the bark of trees. This spider was under the bark of a dead pine tree in the New Forest.
Red Admiral.
Heather.
Heather is also known as ‘ling’ and is a common plant on heathland, moorland, and bogs. To do well it requires acidic or peat soils. It has delicate pink flowers that appear from August to October. Plants grow tightly packed together and can live for over 40 years
Walking on paths in the New Forest across Hatchet Moor several Wheatears were keeping just in front of us on the Heather.
These birds are female birds or juveniles. The male bird is a blue-grey above, with black wings and white below with an orange flush to the breast. It has a black cheek.
Spiny Crab art.
Another one of 6 murals which have been painted across Hampshire, all depicting sea creatures, this one is on Hythe Pier.
Migrant Hawker Dragonfly.
Migrant Hawker Dragonfly on the wing Hatchet pond New Forest.
Hornet on the hunt.
Watching a Hornet and trying to get some photographs of it it appeared to get caught in a spider’s web. This turned out to be an error and what had actually happened was that the hornet was attacking the spider and making a meal of it. After killing the Garden Spider it flew off with its body.
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With the moon out.
With our continued hot dry spell we decided to make an early start on Sunday morning to collect our trail camera footage. On the way, with the sun just up we spotted a good number of different mammals.
Rabbits.
Roebuck. This deer is the regularly spotted buck in our local fields and woodland.
A Shrew. This tiny mammal crossed our path, while we crossed the field. I think this is a Common Shrew.
Common shrews are tricoloured: brown on the back, pale brown at the sides and whitish underneath. They have dense velvety fur, with a long pointed nose, tiny eyes, small ears and red teeth. Their lifespan is short they rarely live longer than a year.
Size: 48-80mm, tail 24-44mm; tail less than 3/4 length of head and body.
Weight: 5-14g.
A bit shaky but a short film of this tiny mammal.
We spotted a fox on several occasions during our walk but he kept his distance.
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