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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2019
at 12:36 Image of day on 26 Sep 2019
A Small White Butterfly perched on a Stinging Nettle leaf.
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Image Taken on 29 Sep 2012
at 10:28 Image of day on 09 Nov 2012
Not MANY insects this atypical year, but those we have are staying about longer than usual.
Here a Small White Butterfly enjoying nectar from the last few Water Mint flowers.
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Image Taken on 17 May 2022
at 08:46 Image of day on 25 Jun 2022
This one of the thousands of buttercups around is right by the back-door.
This moth is about 9mm across - one of a family of micro lepidoptera
that are fascinating but size makes them hard to study.
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Ref: 20220625_df3_20220517_0846_031 small yellow underwing moth (panemeria tenebrata) (typically 9mm) feeding on buttercup (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 07 May 2023
at 08:46 Image of day on 25 Jun 2023
We don't see much of snails here, and after the rains were surprised to come
across this large snail lying on its side to eat a closed Dandelion flower.
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Image Taken on 08 May 2022
at 10:45 Image of day on 14 Jun 2022
Two Snails on old Teasel stems.
You can see the form of the shell patterns are the same, but the
intensity and consistency are very variable.
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Image Taken on 07 Apr 2007
at 11:18 Image of day on 19 Apr 2007
A slightly sinister Snake's-Head Fritillary not yet quite opened.
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2024
at 13:03 Image of day on 16 Apr 2024
Out first Snakes-head fritillary this year is a white one in shade for most of the day.
The curving leaves are a delicate delight ...
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Image Taken on 20 Mar 2024
at 13:04 Image of day on 16 Apr 2024
... but so are the delicately mottled flower petals.
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Image Taken on 07 Apr 2016
at 15:02 Image of day on 13 May 2016
We have a 'traditional' site where Snakes-head Fritillaries have
survived (if not thrived) for the last 25 years. Each year we
have to wait and see whether we get the conventional mottled
purple (left) or the more subtle mottled cream and white
varieties. This year we got both. Look carefully at the white
flower to see the mottling. The single or double flower seems to
be a random variation.
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Image Taken on 08 Apr 2017
at 09:25 Image of day on 21 May 2017
A fortnight later we have not found ANY of the normal coloured Snakes-head
Fritillary flowers this year, though this doesn't mean they are not hiding
somewhere else. This is our biggest clump hiding under a shrub.
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Image Taken on 15 Apr 2015
at 15:34 Image of day on 03 Jun 2015
The rabbits have missed this Snake-head Fritillary!
The camera is near the ground looking up into the flower on the bank
of a pond.
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Image Taken on 26 Apr 2012
at 06:57 Image of day on 20 May 2012
We have planted dozens of Snakes-head Fritillary bulbs over the
years, but the only clump to survive is of the white variant,
here photographed still wet with rain.
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Image Taken on 09 Apr 2011
at 10:31 Image of day on 11 May 2011
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Image Taken on 09 Apr 2011
at 10:32 Image of day on 11 May 2011
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Image Taken on 02 May 2013
at 07:33 Image of day on 12 Jun 2013
Our one and only clump of Snakes-head fritillary near a laurel bush
is the white variant. The rabbits eat all the more normal purple type
but leave these.
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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2009
at 11:03 Image of day on 11 May 2009
For some reason this year only a clump of the white variant of Snake's-head
fritillary has flowered.
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Image Taken on 02 May 2013
at 07:23 Image of day on 12 Jun 2013
Details of a single Snakes Head fritillary flower that grows
between the slabs of a set of stepping stones over what used to
be a flower bed.
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Image Taken on 09 Apr 2011
at 10:29 Image of day on 11 May 2011
As chance, or maybe the nibbling rabbits would have it, our
original mix of mostly purple Snakes-head Fritillary flowers is
reduced to only a couple of clumps of all white.
Here are 3 ever closer views ...
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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2017
at 16:24 Image of day on 21 May 2017
The White form of Snakes-head Fritillary seems to have become the
dominant form here. Here is a double flower on one stem.
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Image Taken on 16 Mar 2012
at 09:58 Image of day on 17 Apr 2012
Surprise of the week was this Snipe making a perhaps 30 minute visit
to the grass around. and banks of, the main pond.
Here is a selection of images, all through window glass for fear of
disturbing the visitor.
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Ref: 20120417_dc1_20120316_0958_124 snipe probing grass by edge of main pond (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
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