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Recent content by dwj

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    Grateful for identification help - West Yorkshire, England

    Thank you all. Illuminating. Yes, the colours are pretty accurate. If anything, caught in the sun, they're brighter and more striking than is evident in the image, so that the bird really stands out.
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    Grateful for identification help - West Yorkshire, England

    Hi Thank you. Can dunnock colours vary so much? We are visited by many of those and they are consistently much darker. This bird is a real gingery brown, so much so that it appears prominently bright against foliage. It also has flashes of white in its tail feathers, which I think can just...
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    Grateful for identification help - West Yorkshire, England

    Hi I should be grateful for help identifying this bird that has been visiting our garden in West Yorkshire, England since early February. It is slightly larger than a robin. I just managed to obtain this rather poor photograph through our window, this morning, and feel very fortunate because...
  4. Shield bug

    Shield bug

    This has spent the day on a shrub in our garden
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Invertebrates
  5. Swift

    Swift

    Just had my annual attempt to photograph a swift, so that it's neither a little black dot, nor a nondescript blur across the sky. Well, this is my best ever. I shall keep trying :-)
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    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'What is this ?????'

    Hi How about Box Bug nymph (coreidae gonocerus)? http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/idcards/life_stages_1.html and https://www.flickr.com/groups/582656@N21/pool/87906144@N00/ Thanks David
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    • Gallery comment
  7. Sawfly larva

    Sawfly larva

    Saw several of these in my father's garden. Thought they were small caterpillars. About 15mm long
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  8. Hoverfly

    Hoverfly

    Best I've ever done at this. Been trying for years. Would still like to do better :-)
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  9. Early bumblebee

    Early bumblebee

    I think this was an Early bumblebee. Not sure though. There were several species about
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  10. Red-tailed bumblebee

    Red-tailed bumblebee

    Not that much red can be seen here
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  11. Lots of baby garden spiders

    Lots of baby garden spiders

    There must have been hundreds. The ball was about an inch in diameter
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    • Media item
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Invertebrates
  12. Baby garden spider

    Baby garden spider

    Just recently hatched, I think. This was tiny
    • dwj
    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
  13. Grisly

    Grisly

    Dinner was still alive at this stage, I'm afraid. I think the diner is phaonia viarum, but I didn't get a view of the abdomen and I'm often not confident with identification in any case. Don't know what dinner was
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    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Invertebrates
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    Comment by 'Guest' in media 'Tres chic!'

    Beautiful
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    • Gallery comment
  15. Flesh-fly

    Flesh-fly

    Saw several of these, this afternoon. I liked the patterns in the sunlight
    • dwj
    • Media item
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Invertebrates
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