After the rain

Taken just before the sun came up and melted the beads.

Long-tailed Tits

Small Blue

Part of the Milky Way on a clear summer night.
The bright start at the top is Vega.

Red Admiral - a bit tatty!



A big Hoverfly (25-30mm)




Blackbird

Little Egrets on the River Yar

Butterflies

Female Common Blue


Underside


Male Common Blue


Gatekeeper


Comma

More Bees and Flies

Hoverfly


Bees, fully loaded!

On the highest perch

Moon

The moon taken at a focal length of 450mm zoomed approximately 4x.

Bees and Bugs

Not too sure what this is, possibly a Ladybird pupae?

Two small Bees or Wasps?


Ladybird lavae

More Bees


What's this?

Yet another Bee!

Common Blue Damselfly

Female Emerald Damselfly (Lestes sponsa) on Sage leaf.

Seagull attacks Buzzard. Not the clearest image but it was a long way up!


The bees knees!


Tending the herd!

Petunia

A picture of a Petunia in my garden, on the original image nectar can clearly be seen on the stamen and hairs on the foliage. Not too sure if this will be visible on the blog, but I thought I'd give it a go!

Okay, just checked it out and the detail is all there :-)

Just getting started

After a discussion with Carl in the pub last night creating this blog seemed like a good idea, so here we are.

Just a couple of images to get started, taken in my back garden with my new Pentax K-x DSLR, which turns out some amazingly detailed results.

The House Sparrow is the male of a pair nesting in my loft.

The Wood Pigeon is always around, I just like the image!