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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2019
at 06:58 Image of day on 25 Oct 2019
Whoosh - 2 seconds of a Rabbit streaking across the grass margin to gain the
safety of our plot at the left. The Rabbit started running upon seeing us about
70m away to the right and reached 'peak speed' on the 'level' grass. Rabbit
shooters have been about for the last few weeks and by now any tolerance of
humans will be long gone.
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2019
at 06:58 Image of day on 25 Oct 2019
A closer view of the speeding Rabbit.
Muybridge (the Victorian moving image photographer) might have loved this, and
then got how Horses run as completely wrong as the artists of the time!
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Image Taken on 13 Aug 2017
at 17:28 Image of day on 28 Sep 2017
One normally thinks of rabbits nibbling the grass, but here a youngster picks a
stem to bite off and then consume lengthways all the way up to and including the
seed head.
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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2015
at 00:26 Image of day on 25 Oct 2015
The summer invasion of young rabbits is upon us, all
looking so innocent. This one has to be named 'Buttercup'.
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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2017
at 18:10 Image of day on 02 Dec 2017
Rabbit with carrot - just like endless illustrations in children's books.
Rabbits don't store food against future need, but then the grass they mostly
eat doesn't go away.
A leaf happens to have been falling at the moment of exposure just above the
Rabbits left front leg.
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Image Taken on 16 Jun 2025
at 21:47 Image of day on 08 Aug 2025
Bunny with Buttercups!
Most of the Buttercups have closed for the impending night - its about 9.45 p.m. and near the
solstice and with the clocks shifted by an hour, at our latitude it is still twilight.
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Image Taken on 16 Jun 2021
at 18:14 Image of day on 28 Jul 2021
"Baby Bunny in Clover"
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Image Taken on 23 May 2015
at 18:37 Image of day on 23 Jul 2015
By our heating Oil tank (We are about a mile from the nearest gas main)
this young rabbit looked so appealing we just had to take its photo
nearly hidden in the long grass.
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2020
at 07:01 Image of day on 14 Oct 2020
We can't even begin to imagine why this juvenile Rabbit is leaping so high
over the grass.
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Image Taken on 16 Nov 2008
at 20:43 Image of day on 11 Dec 2008
Ear-Ear (sorry)
We never know what is going to go down well, and we only included
this in our weekly assortment email on a whim. But we got enough
feedback that we thought we would include it here as well.
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Image Taken on 06 Jul 2020
at 15:07 Image of day on 13 Aug 2020
In the partial shade of the Oak tree at the edge of the meadow, a glorious
bouquet of self-set wild flowers.
Ragwort (the yellow flowers) is poisonous to many farm animals, but our
adjacent surroundings are now entirely arable so we permit some to grow.
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Image Taken on 02 Jul 2023
at 12:20 Image of day on 26 Aug 2023
Patches of Ragwort pop up at random over the meadow.
We expect the Cinnabar Caterpillars to soon appear, and then
the vivid red and black moths that emerge.
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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2022
at 11:02 Image of day on 19 Sep 2022
Outside our south hedge is this grass margin. The only thing we could find that
doesn't look dead is this seemingly indestructible but stunted Oxford Ragwort
plant. A poppy we had been following just withered and died. Seeing this got us
thinking about Cinnabar Moths and their caterpillars which feed on this plant,
and of which we have seen none at all, and its now the end of their
caterpillar's growth period.
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Image Taken on 14 Jul 2021
at 10:16 Image of day on 24 Aug 2021
A week later the Cinnabar Caterpillars have just about stripped this and most
other Ragwort plants in our patch, but the plants recover every year.
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Image Taken on 08 Jul 2018
at 09:13 Image of day on 02 Sep 2018
Each year our meadow area has a few clumps of the poisonous (to some livestock)
Ragwort. This year we have yet to see any on our patch, but found this solitary
clump flowering in the edge of the Oil-seed Rape crop 100m from where we ever
see ours. It disappeared into the harvester.
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Image Taken on 22 Sep 2019
at 14:52 Image of day on 21 Nov 2019
After a short but heavy shower, raindrops were beading the Pampas Grass stems.
On closer inspection (here looking downwards) we see the drops magnifying the
ridges on the grass leaves, and the drops at the edge imaging the surroundings.
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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2023
at 08:50 Image of day on 16 Sep 2023
We are delightfully 'awash' with Red Admiral Butterflies in numbers we don't ever remember seeing
before. Here are two feasting on a Teasel flower with the two rings of flowers now working their
way up and down.
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Image Taken on 27 Jul 2017
at 12:57 Image of day on 05 Sep 2017
We seem to have more than usual Red Admiral Butterflies this year,
increasing the chance of 2 on the same teasel at once, even if for
only a few seconds. The insect on the right is pristine, but the other
seems to have been around for longer and had time to get caught in the
beak of a bird, escaping by leaving a bit of it's wing in the beak.
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Image Taken on 30 Aug 2009
at 10:33 Image of day on 08 Oct 2009
We offered the pair a feed on a yellow buddleia flower (on which
we netted one of them) and took the opportunity for some portraits.
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Image Taken on 28 Sep 2020
at 10:52 Image of day on 12 Nov 2020
A surprise was to find 3 pristine Red Admiral Butterflies feeding from the
flowers on the top of a 3m high Yellow Buddleia that came with the house
30 years ago.
This Buddleia is so vigorous that we take it down to 'knee' height
when the flowers have finally been stopped by the first frost. It is a 'magnet'
for butterflies and moths at the end of each flowering season.
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