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Image Taken on 14 Sep 2023 at 10:34 Image of day on 05 Nov 2023

The previously generation of Red admiral Butterflies enjoyed feeding on the Blackberry flowers, and may even have fertilised the fruit from which this one is taking their fill.

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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2025 at 12:55 Image of day on 26 Oct 2025

At this time of year fruits begin to seep their sweet juices, providing a valuable energy source for the insects as flowers become rarer.

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Image Taken on 19 Sep 2006 at 11:00 Image of day on 07 Oct 2006

This Red Admiral Butterfly was in a pool of sunlight that makes it glow.

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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2006 at 13:17 Image of day on 24 Sep 2006

A pair of images (second tomorrow) that show a Red Admiral Butterfly with wings closed and then momentarily opened

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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2006 at 13:17 Image of day on 25 Sep 2006

A pair of images (first yesterday) that show a Red Admiral Butterfly now with wings momentarily opened.

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Image Taken on 14 Sep 2023 at 10:41 Image of day on 05 Nov 2023

A close look at a Red Admiral Butterfly with his figure-of-eight cross section proboscis deep between Blackberry druplets.
Blackberries are actually known as an 'aggregate fruit 'composed of small druplets.

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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2016 at 09:00 Image of day on 28 Oct 2016

At 9 a.m. on a mid-September morning some warm early sunshine brought out variety of insects into a east facing hedge.
A Red Admiral Butterfly with it's proboscis (just left of the more obvious leg resting on the fruit) deep down in the not-quite ripe Blackberry berry.

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Image Taken on 23 Apr 2025 at 16:49 Image of day on 27 May 2025

Inherited with this house was this Red Apple cultivar.
Everything is red - the flowers, the wood, the sap, and all parts of the apple. We have learned to enjoy red Apple Crumble! The last few years has hardly produced any fruit but this year we at least have loads of blossom to enjoy.

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Image Taken on 20 Apr 2022 at 15:22 Image of day on 19 May 2022

We inherited just this one 'Red' apple tree with the house. The blossom is red. the wood is red, the fruit is red. After a very poor show and no fruit at all last year, we hope for better this year.
Red apple crumble looks odd but tastes good!

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Image Taken on 01 May 2023 at 16:33 Image of day on 12 Jun 2023

Details of one of the Red crab apple flower-heads.

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Image Taken on 01 May 2023 at 16:33 Image of day on 12 Jun 2023

One inherited tree in the orchard is this Red Crab-apple tree.
Everything is red - the wood, sap, leaf tinge, flowers, apple skin and flesh.
After a few years of almost no yield this year the tree is smothered in blossom.
Red apple crumble, Red apple sauce ... slightly sharp but tasty compared to most supermarket varieties.

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Image Taken on 17 Oct 2018 at 15:28 Image of day on 09 Dec 2018

As the Red Kite departed a young Lombardy Poplar tree adds a little autumn colour.

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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2021 at 16:34 Image of day on 09 Oct 2021

Bottom left near the tractor wheels this Red Kite is not disturbed by the noisy behemoth only a few metres away.

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Image Taken on 05 Oct 2007 at 10:02 Image of day on 14 Nov 2007

A little Canadian colour in an English wood. Unlike typical UK deciduous leaves, individual plant cells seem to go from green to red very quickly - very few are orange. Decades ago a Canadian Friend of Marie's commented on the gentle change of British autumn colour, and at last we see why.

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Image Taken on 15 Apr 2013 at 17:48 Image of day on 22 May 2013

The small group of Redpolls were there to feed on the Hawthorn buds

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Image Taken on 20 Jan 2017 at 08:05 Image of day on 03 Mar 2017

This Redwing has found a sheltered patch in the woodland, but is nevertheless obviously plumped up against the cold, and has frost on it's tail. Brrr. We normally see Redwings as a small fraction of birds among Fieldfare flocks, similar in size and habits.

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Image Taken on 11 Feb 2009 at 09:18 Image of day on 09 Mar 2009

The snow seems to have brought the redwings back into view.
Brrrr

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Image Taken on 23 Mar 2008 at 10:19 Image of day on 12 Apr 2008

This year Redwings have moved from brief glimpse in autumn to regular views on the camera and physical sightings.

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Image Taken on 17 Aug 2022 at 11:59 Image of day on 28 Sep 2022

This 'Little Brown Bird' (we think a Reed Warbler) is outside the conservatory picking off the spherical 'drupelets' from blackberry fruits. The bird is as well disguised in these 4 sequential images as it was trying to find it in the camera viewfinder!
Drupelet is what seems to be the official spelling although Druplet is freely used.

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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2010 at 07:58 Image of day on 08 Jan 2011

Reed Buntings are irregular visitors seen only once or twice some years. The last inclusion on this site was a male for 6 May 2009. This single image was the only image we got and is of a female.

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