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  1. Ashley beolens

    Haunts Local to Aylesbury

    Come up north to Milton Keynes and experience Manor Farm, Willen or Linford nature reserve (members only but I believe you can visit for a day), all three can be good in spring.
  2. Ashley beolens

    Extension rings advice

    Yeah thanks, how stupid do I feel, had both lens and converter for years and not combined them until now
  3. Ashley beolens

    Extension rings advice

    Well just found out you can use the Kenko converter with the 100mm lens straight, and there was me thinking it would need a tube in the middle, guess I should have thought of this first lol.
  4. Ashley beolens

    Extension rings advice

    I'm after some advice with extension tubes, I have a set of non reporting extension rings (cheap Jessops ones) had them a while but I've not used them however I've recently decided I wanted to try (in two ways which I will explain). Firstly I want to use them straight with my 100mm macro lens...
  5. Ashley beolens

    What makes one lake good for ducks and one not?

    Thanks everyone. I'm still not sure, as I know there are plenty of water snails and mussles (as I've seen evidence at the side of the lake), it just seems odd that the ducks are missing so often.
  6. Ashley beolens

    What makes one lake good for ducks and one not?

    I wouldn't mind if things like tufted duck, Pochard, Gadwall were rare but on other local lakes they are very common (especially in winter). :)
  7. Ashley beolens

    What makes one lake good for ducks and one not?

    Sorry long title, I have a blog post due to go live tomorrow (Tuesday 27th May) where I was thinking about why my local patch lake is so poor for water fowl where as other lakes have much more (it's all hypotheses and I have no real answer) so I thought I would ask on here what people think? A...
  8. Ashley beolens

    Confirmation Please Moth(West Lothian)

    I would think that Small Fan-footed wave (of the f.fimbriolata type) fits better.
  9. Ashley beolens

    Can anyone identify this UK moth for me please?

    I might be wrong but Old Lady Mormo maura?
  10. Ashley beolens

    A few micros for ID please

    These were all in last nights trappings (from my bucks garden), 2 & 3 may be the same species? as may 3&4? 4 looks quite worn to me? All help gratefully appreciated.
  11. Ashley beolens

    2 micros one worn macro I need help with

    OK 2 is a caddisfly - Agraylea multipunctata I believe, who knew they were hairy looking? 3 is Argyresthia goedartella
  12. Ashley beolens

    Couple of Moths for ID please

    1 - Least Carpet
  13. Ashley beolens

    2 micros one worn macro I need help with

    Any help with these three moths would be much appreciated: 1) Dark Arches size etc, but colours seem odd even for worn individual? 2) No clue 3) No clue Thanks in advance for any help.
  14. Ashley beolens

    I'm stumped with this Noctuidae

    OK, may have my own ID, maybe Rustic Shoulder Knot?
  15. Ashley beolens

    I'm stumped with this Noctuidae

    I'm sure it shouldn't be this hard, but I cannot get this Noctuidae to fit anything (although this will be just me), any help would be greatly appreciated. Trapped last night along side my first Hawk Moth of the year (a stonking Poplar Hawk Moth, photos on my blog) and little else. Thanks in...
  16. Ashley beolens

    Moth trap and white sheet

    In the hope of catching a few winter moths I have had my trap out a few times this year (only one moth so far, Chestnut, too cold, wet and windy I guess) anyway last time I did I thought I would place it on a white sheet to maybe help, being wet out I thought I would use a plastic shower curtain...
  17. Ashley beolens

    Pond dipping

    This made me laugh, my daughter always makes up names, which is why there are now two geese named Greedy and Blackberry and a Heron named Marlon :) Once again thanks for all the advice, I think when it warms up a bit we will gear up and see what we can find.
  18. Ashley beolens

    Plant ID

    Many thanks :)
  19. Ashley beolens

    Long tailed tits - feeding tips??

    LTT liked fatballs in my last house, as well as once feeding on a fruit loaf that had been left out on a table (along with a goldcrest!).
  20. Ashley beolens

    Rare garden visitors.

    I guess rare depends where you are in the gardens I have had over the years the rarity nature has varied. Redstart (house 1) Chiffhcaff (house 2 not that rare in many places but was a tiny yard rather than a garden with no bushes in a built up area) Black redstart (house 2 on the bricks)...
  21. Ashley beolens

    Anyone here collect bird feathers here?

    Blimey I have feathers from loads of birds my daughter always picks them up! As well as a hoopoe feather I picked up in Mallorca. Guess I'm for the gallows.
  22. Ashley beolens

    Plant ID

    Hi can anyone ID this plant species? I've had a search and closest I could come was an Algea possibly blue green? but growing by a wall (of a roman ruin) not really near water. Thanks in advance.
  23. Ashley beolens

    Pond dipping

    The local lake is the local parks trust (used to be part of the council) so is in the public sphere somewhere (although I think they are run as a charity now, who knows with local politics, they are probably a private company now who own all our local parks and will sell them to the highest...
  24. Ashley beolens

    Pond dipping

    Thanks for the advice so far guys I'm guessing that this means it is OK to do without permission? And thanks for the tip about RSPB sites John, I know they and other nature reserves do such, but as a non driver the local lake is easier to get to :)
  25. Ashley beolens

    Help for Kent list gaps

    Purple Sandpiper can often be found by the jetski rental in Margate/Clifftonville along the rocks.
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