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Image Taken on 28 Aug 2019
at 11:09 Image of day on 22 Oct 2019
A Red Admiral Butterfly perched on a decidedly caterpillar munched Hawthorn leaf.
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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 04 Sep 2020
at 10:37 Image of day on 17 Oct 2020
This Red Kite flew in a huge arc, providing the opportunity for some pics.
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Image Taken on 06 Oct 2021
at 10:39 Image of day on 20 Nov 2021
... before sweeping past over the Farm Road.
These are accurately positioned at 7 fps (about 140mS between frames) ...
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Image Taken on 01 Nov 2020
at 10:01 Image of day on 06 Dec 2020
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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 of day on 11 Oct 2005
Red Oak is one of our few non-native trees. They don't grow
particularly well here but the glorious colours compensate.
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Image Taken on 22 May 2009
at 13:34 Image of day on 16 Jun 2009
A Red-Eyed damselfly with wonderful bronze and bright yellow-green body,
and of course red eyes. This is a female not yet ready to breed.
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Image Taken on 22 May 2009
at 13:40 Image of day on 16 Jun 2009
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Image Taken on 15 Apr 2013
at 17:47 Image of day on 22 May 2013
Not a rare bird, but our first sighting ever of a Redpoll. A few
were in the hedge by the now soggy haystack left near our
boundary. Not seen since this sighting.
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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 18 Dec 2017
at 12:07 Image of day on 26 Jan 2018
This is a couple of Redpolls from a flock of about 10. We have only managed to
photograph Redpolls 3 times over the years since 2013, and in 2016 at almost the same
date. Here we show two birds in flight over 3 consecutive exposures we estimate
at 200mS apart - one bird already moving fast and the other just launching.
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Image Taken on 04 Dec 2019
at 09:48 Image of day on 09 Jan 2020
This Redwing was some 20m away across the road in a Hawthorn bush/tree.
The 3 images (separated by a re-focus each time so over a few seconds)
caught the bird perched by a Haw, pulling the Haw off, and then beak open to swallow it!
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Image Taken on 23 Nov 2007
at 14:37 Image of day on 25 Dec 2007
To go with the fieldfare eating a hawthorn berry (shown on 18 Dec 2007)
here is a redwing that moves around with the Fieldfare group.
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Image Taken on 07 Nov 2010
at 09:47 Image of day on 04 Jan 2011
We have been trying to get good photographs of Fieldfares. But it was
this Redwing, of which a few are scattered through the Fieldfare
flock, seemed to be slightly less nervous and could be
photographed through gaps in other trees.
We love the subtle blending of bird and foliage.
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