Archived & Upcoming Images of the Day
Willow Emerald Damselflies seem to appear at the Duck Pond in the middle of the day.
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Willow Emerald Damselflies are one of the Odonata species that conveniently often return to exactly the same perch as they left to chase some midge to eat.
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A male Southern Hawker Dragonfly seems to glow even in the shade.
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A fluttering of blue attracted our attention to this Common Blue Butterfly. Really not 'common' here at all.
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"SIT!"
This beautiful Fox is looking at something out of camera on the right.
Its apparently not a threat as the Fox quietly sits down without taking
their eyes away from the object of attention.
Left to right movement is an illusion.
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You may have noticed our fascination with quadruped leg movements. Here the Reeves' Muntjac Deer has their rear left leg almost touching the right front leg. We know evolution has to ensure that the brain knows what the legs are up to but we are still amazed how quadrupeds don't trip themselves up!
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In the early hours the current male Reeves' Muntjac Deer looks back at 'his' female. They probably shared a drink the Trail-cam sensor didn't trigger.
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Half an hour before midnight sees this immaculate Badger pass through the hedge bottom.
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An unusual view of a Badgers front paw turned over so we can see the impressive claws on this animals left front paw. A great digging 'tool'.
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There seem to be two female Kestrels suddenly making visits to the surrounding harvested fields. Here this one decided to land on the thinnest of the 3 phone cables running to our house, and has a really bad time regaining balance as the cable swings about from the bird's impact. This landing was actually chasing away another female Kestrel ...
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... but the chase continued as this bird then flew to the this 11kV crossbar to chase the bird again. We can only guess about what's doing on.
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A single frame skipped from the montage showing both Kestrels.
This is NOT a montage.
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The male Sparrowhawk lands on the Kitchen perch ...
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... and hours later makes a fly-over.
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The Sparrowhawk lands, and two minutes later launches, unexpectedly towards the kitchen window.
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This young Fox slinks across the Woodland site. He had taken a drink from the trough at the dried out Round Pond perhaps 15m away just a couple of minutes earlier.
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Tongue out to lap up some water from the Duck Pond dish.
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The trail-cam seems to have caught this Fox with a moderately large prey item in their mouth.
It looks to us to be a young Rabbit - head at the bottom and front and rear legs above pointing
to the camera left.
Its NOT some effect of the leaf litter as frames before and after confirm.
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Southern Hawker Dragonflies are a colourful addition to the fauna ...
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... but they don't have a great sense of artistic places to perch.
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This Migrant Hawker Dragonfly was moving very slowly over Duck Pond - nearly a second of
flight caught here.
Dragonflies can hover and fly backwards - wonderful aerodynamicists.
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This female Common Blue Damselfly is in one of three colourations females can have. This is called 'drab' in some books but it seems to be called different things in different books.
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