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47773 T&T with 20189 passing Midge Hill with the return Vintage Trains private charter. 1Z43 14.34 York - Manchester Piccadilly. Thanks to the landowner for his kind permission. Saturday 14 May 2022. Pole Shot.
The Scottish midges really made me suffer here.
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From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
(Matthew 16:21)
Not many could predict the location and manner of their own death. Only the Son of God could go on to predict that he would rise from the dead three days later!
Wee little fellow. I love their feathered antennae. Its placement on the fern should give you a context of its size.
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An evening shoot with some people from the camera club who had nothing better to do than get bitten by midges and stumble over wet rocks, then go to the pub. Lumb Falls.
'Volgens Rede en Road' - By Reason and Cunning - reads an antiquating decorative facing brick in the wall of Zeedijk 25 here in Amsterdam. It pictures a Spider which has just completed its handsome web.
The filaments this morning in the Hortus Botanicus by a Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa, under two umbels of Perfoliate Alexanders were not nearly as regular and 'handsome' as those of that decoration. But there was apparently enough reason and cunning in these arachnidan lines to have become fatal for a wee male Midge, Dasyhelea sp. (see my posting of a few days ago: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/47635243192/in/photost...). And Spider has gained a meal.
Standing by the river waiting to get that shot....& the breeze has gone, you can see hordes of the little perishers...so far they have not got your scent...but you know thats not going to last.
Well for once, just this time i managed to get away with it...there is a God after all!
Ben More, Perthshire, seen from the River at Crainlarich.
Something different. The ground is still very wet in places and today has been the first really brilliant day of sunshine (and maybe some heat in places) So the result is midge heaven! It was heaving with them! But such a glorious evening to be out!
A 30 minute drive off the main road heading north through glencoe is Glen Etive, stunning waterfalls on the way down to the loch, if you come across the deer you’ll find they are close enough to touch. Loads of spaces to wild camp, which is legal in Scotland but take your midge net and repellant as they are the best fed critters in Scotland and your on the menu.
If you look in the last photo you will see this old longship left by the Vikings many years ago.. :-)
A quick last post before I shoot off to Scotland for a week or so.
Here's another of That Tree at Llanberis, and if you look closely I managed to catch a small flight of midges hovering around it's upper branches.
I did like the delicate high cloud, but it soon burned away to give a cloudless sky - something of a rarity in Snowdonia.
This is the smaller waterfall above the main Harthope Linn waterfall taken on a sunny June day. The burn runs through trees around the waterfall which cast shadows over most of it with just small areas highlighted where the sun could penetrate.
Within seconds of setting up I was getting bitten by midges - the shade was a haven for them. I didn't stay long....
Non Biting Midge (family Chironomidae)
It had been running around on this leaf of the Mirror bush, thankfully it decided to rest for a few moments.
On our bank holiday visit to Meldon Reservoir we followed the lake until we reached a nice little valley which was formed by that little stream I photographed here. We spend some time taking in the idyllic atmosphere - the boys were enjoying throwing pebbles into the water and I took a few photos while discovering that midges are obviously not limited to parts of Scotland!
BugGuide identified this as a non-biting Midge. I hadn't seen one before but that's just me ;) I find it quite interesting that it has interesting mouth-parts, like two little arms with which I believe it uses to hold it's food while it eats it. It also has these very interesting and quite fuzzy antenna. Cute for a bug - in my opinion and ever better when it's a bug that doesn't bite me!
Taken 29 May 2023 in my yard near Wasilla, Alaska.
Male Marsh Harrier (and Midges) back lit in the early morning sun. If this was black and white I could have probably pretended it was a snow storm.
Taken in Norfolk.
Very tiny (almost) all-black male midge with wild antennae
Mitutoyo 20x NA 0.42, tube lens: Raynox (125mm)
Illumination: diffuse oblique
This Yellow headed blackbird is surrounded by an insect swarm of midges. They look a lot like mosquitos, but fortunately are non-biting.
Things have been very busy for me lately. I'm sorry I'm not commenting and posting as much as I'd like. Don't give up on me, I'm hoping to be back on track soon. I really do appreciate all my contacts and your support and kind comments on my photostream. Thank you all!
Objective: Mitutoyo 5x NA 0.14
Tunbe lens: Raynox 125mm
Illumination: Oblique and dark field / polarization