Wildlife in the Slow Lane. Nature and wildlife photos and information
This is a round-up post of various other Sunday sightings, although nothing out of the ordinary. Fairly quiet in many respects, but still good fun to get out and about. First up, a Blackbird mixing business with pleasure, searching for ...
I spotted this very large hopper slowly making its way up a steep embankment on my way to the beach and managed to get a few reasonable shots and a short video. And a ...
A grasshopper hopped onto a fence and then onto the ground near me so what could I do but take his picture. He didn't leap away and let me get quite close.
Grasshoppers often tend to leap away if you get too close, but these two almost seemed to want to pose, so I made the most of it. One even did a slow pirouette so I could get shots at different ...
First up are a few recent photos of flowers I have not yet been able to identify, but they look nice. I particularly like this first spiky cluster as it is quite distinctive and different. This next one I do know ...
The garden in Woodley has always been full of grasshoppers and I always see lots while working in the garden. Yesterday, I spotted a bright green cricket so I asked my husband (who was already working in the garden) to ...
I haven't been out as much the last week or two but I did get to a couple of local places. Again, there was nothing really unusual but I did take some photos. There are still butterflies and dragonflies taking ...
As well as the butterflies and moths, there is plents of other activity in the garden. The pond is doing well and attracting various insects including a very nice damselfly. The frogs and goldfish seem happy enough and are very ...
The weather has been up and down the last few days but I have been on a couple of lake walks. Sunday was particularly disappointing as it was forecast as a good day but in fact drizzled on and off ...
These dragonflies, butterflies and other wildlife were all taken around local lakes in the last couple of weeks. The first one shows a Migrant Hawker dragonfly which has just taken off. This is also a Migrant Hawker in flight (not the ...
This week has been hot and muggy so I have only been on a few short walks. I haven't seen anything different and the dragonflies seem to be everywhere, even in my garden. These are just a mixture of recent ...
Wherever I go in the meadows and even in the garden, there are lots of hoppers moving about on the ground. I automatically think 'grasshopper' but there are actually Groundhoppers, Grasshoppers and Crickets and there are many different kinds in ...
As well as the individual dragonflies I have posted separately, I have seen some quite interesting things in the last few days. It is a bit of a mish-mash, but here goes. Firstly, a nice little grasshopper. As I was leaving ...
Apart from the eels, which I had never seen before in the rio Chillar, there were quite a few of the usual suspects out and about during my leisurely Sunday stroll in the heat. For me, anyway, Blackbirds, Turdus merula, have ...
I spent a few interesting moments crouched down in the wet grass where the snakes live trying to get a clear shot of the many grasshoppers (Acrididae) I always see moving about.... There are also crickets there but I haven't managed ...
This rather fine, and huge specimen suddenly flew up in front of me and then, fortunately, settled on a fence post to have his picture taken.
