The visitor centre at the Pensthorpe nature reserve - home to Springwatch 2008.

So....we go out shopping for motorbike trousers and stop by in Mote Park for a picnic......I THINK this is a female Southern Hawker but find dragonflies so hard

sparrowhawk

@ Stanmer park

The mating ritual of lesser black-backed gulls. See the full set on my art & nature blog - landscapeartnaturebirds.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/lesser-bla...

#100daysofnature - Day 90 - arghh I am cheating again - took this Bee Fly yesterday ....I wanted to use him as I love his beady eyes

The mating ritual of lesser black-backed gulls. See the full set on my art & nature blog - landscapeartnaturebirds.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/lesser-bla...

a very dull day here....here is a crane fly just hanging around in the garden

Pair of Southern Hawkers

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z2vn8/live on 6.2.14

dancing, bathing, having a sing-song...

cormies enjoying the sunny day.

Evening light turns unopened poppy flower heads into mysterious little alien pods.

one of few albino squirrels in Oxted, Surrey

Some rare and welcome visitors to our garden. Often seen in the wider area but very seldom this close. I'm now worried they're eyeing up a nesting site in thecatstree, so named because the cat likes climbing it...

Another of the very few i took yesterday......but he is trying his best to look so cute I couldn't resist

ridiculam aqua transvolans et passer rostratis

Pollen covered bees in the garden doing their work

In the last week or so a pair of Collared Doves have decided to nest in our outside light...