Blue tit in late afternoon sunshine

One of several hedgehogs living in our garden.

1 of 5 fox cubs spotted by my wife on some land at the bottom of our garden...

Singing siskin from today. A big thanks to John for the location

RSPB Old Moor

So good at camouflage it even fooled this fly!

Growing fast and trying to keep cool in a heatwave.

Sparrow & Juvenile

A few from the Archives..

Just love the tones...... Been to reedbeds at all different times of the year, late spring though and you get these gorgeous colours which change with the light... Just add a bird & I'm ecstatic!

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This is one of a pair in the local park. It appears to have a deformed or infected foot. It flew with this leg down and also was unable to stand when it landed. Between flights it sat down on the edge of the pond but does appear to be able to fly ok.

Garden

Yellow Dung Fly/Forget-me-not

I always advise people not to trust the fungi one finds in Epping Forest - here is a good illustration why. These flies visit a variety of unsavoury places before alighting on edible oyster mushrooms.

A young badger I filmed back in May tucking in to raisins, the soundtrack is provided by a young woodpecker looking out of its hole above me.

Edit:

My short Badger video has made its way on to the 'BBC Spring Watch twitter' page... I've added a link at the bottom of the comments.

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This evening from Dundee.

Female red Mason bee - Osmia Bicornis.

RSPB Minsmere

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RSPB Leighton Moss

My best mate and I went for a walk around our local nature reserve, it started raining so we made a dash for the closest bird hide, after the rain macro photography was a joy as everything was covered in tiny rain drops that sparkled like jewles.

This Comma has been hibernating in a family members garage, but they are about to have the roof repaired so we have transported it into my greenhouse and hopefully less disturbances in the coming months. The male Comma is slightly darker than the female, and both sexes have a brighter golden form called Hutchinsoni, which is produced by the earliest caterpillars that developed in spring.

Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)

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On the Ceres burn in Dura Den in Fife this morning.

A gorgeous Short Eared Owl in flight a while ago at Farlington Marshes.

Cuteness overload! One from the summer a Great Crested Grebe carrying its youngster on its back. 😍😍

A pair of Dragonflies with the female laying her eggs in the water. 😍😍

Yorkshire Wolds

Fulmar in flight at Bempton Cliffs.

Although they are gull-like, Fulmars are "tubenose" (having large, raised nasal tubes), more closely related to albatrosses.

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Sunset over Morecambe Bay

This wee person was in Tentsmuir forest this morning

Female KingFisher with a fish on a rock at Staffordshire Wildlife Hides