meadow life

one afternoon in the secret meadow

bumblebee on cat's ear

wild garlic

grasshopper

red soldier beetle on freckled skin

naughty bee watching soldier beetles having it off. on knapweed.

injured ruby tiger moth

also spotted since march but not captured in a photograph:

beautiful skylarks, singing

giant blue dragonflies

mayflies who only live for a day

banded desmoiselles, with delicate cellophane wings

swallows plus fledglings

swifts

house martins

tiny pipistrelle bats swooping low over the river at night

great spotted woodpecker

a kingfisher (at last)

tiny shrews

herons, mostly on one leg

arctic terns

mallow

queen anne's lace

great crested grebes and stripey babies

yellow flag iris

egyptian geese

ox eye daisies

mandarin ducks

fairy ring champignons

buzzards

our kestrel
devil's bit scabious

a golden pheasant, dead the next day

delightful cormorants

a giant dead bream, stinking

a female stag beetle

tufted vetch

hundreds of cinnabar moths
ribwort plantain

perfect glowing poppies

brambles, very soon ready

a murder of crows