Archived & Upcoming Images of the Day
Demon Internets commercial site (where the image of the day archive is stored) server has been collapsing & corrupting files for over a week & on this day went down for major work. Server running again 3 Oct 2006 and this archive re-loaded.
Not forgetting the moorhens - 2 adults are 3 juveniles are regularly seen together. Here one of each look for supper.
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Middle September has been characterised by walking through clouds of Craneflies, removing them from the house etc. There must be thousands at a time in the hedges.
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A comma butterfly sips from a blackberry fruit.
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A pair of images (first yesterday) that show a Red Admiral Butterfly now with wings momentarily opened.
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A pair of images (second tomorrow) that show a Red Admiral Butterfly with wings closed and then momentarily opened
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The ash tree on the 'island' outside the kitchen window now has a lovely show of green/yellow seed heads. At night when we look out with a powerful torch these positively glow compared to the leaves.
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Elderberry doesn't make a very good hedging plant because it is too vigorous and spindly, but it produces lots of berries for the wildlife.
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Some of the beech tress have lost leaves to caterpillars. This Dragonfly finds this bare treetop a useful perch.
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Decades ago we photographed dragonflies in flight at great effort using flash and electronic triggers. With a bit of luck a modern SLR can do a creditable job hand-held.
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In a flurry of feathers this Great Tit launches itself from the log wet with overnight rain at first light.
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The fieldmice (wood mice) continue to gorge themselves. Is this a case of his/her eyes being a LOT bigger than the creature let alone the tummy.
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A handsome Dunnock, probably not the one that lost it's tail.
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Is this fieldmouse (wood mouse) practising for a Cirque du Soleil ball walking audition? Perhaps it doesn't know Cirque only includes humans.
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An old friend from our early (early 1970s) moth watching days is this Large Yellow underwing Moth. Never could get them to fly down our flight-tunnel to take their own photos, and here we get an interesting image without trying.
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As a detail from yesterdays image, you can see that the proboscis is a figure-of-8 cross section that keeps it from getting tangled up.
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For a few hours on one day (7 Sep) one section of hedge was decorated with comma butterflies on blackberry fruits and some late flowers. Tomorrow the detail of the proboscis.
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The hedges and particularly untrimmed hawthorn trees are awash with berries. The birds will love these.
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Particularly immaculate Robin.
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The Hazelnuts are ripening nicely so the squirrels arrive from nowhere to feast. Now its a race between us and them for us to get any ripe ones before they do.
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These fieldmice (wood mice) just look so sweet.
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Robin as it turns makes an unusual pose.
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This beautiful Male Southern Hawker Dragonfly was in a sycamore tree glowing in a pool of sunlight. Note the tracery of its wings shadowed on the tree bark.
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Remember the Dunnock with the missing tail (image for 29 Aug 2006). We think this is the same bird 8 days on with it regrowing.
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Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) making a feast of a few corn grains the birds didn't take.
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This years crop of moorhen are now largely independent and often seen on their own. The red berries at the birds foot were a small trial clump of Rowen berries to see whether ground birds liked them (NOT the Woody Nightshade from yesterdays image). Seems they are not keen.
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Here is a North facing Woody Nightshade that the uneven light has left us with both flowers and berries. Poisonous but beautiful.
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Have only seen a few Speckled Wood Butterflies over the years, this one allowing this one shot before it flew off into invisibility.
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The '4' tells you that our attempt to photograph a blackberry from bud to berry has not gone well. But this cluster is fruiting nicely.
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