Went looking for butterflies yesterday in the sunshine and spotted this Speckled Wood. I am quite astonished though at how few insects there are around this year so far, I only have a small garden but yesterday I couldn't find anything at all!! is this a sign of the times?

great harwood lancashire

Bearded tit or Panurus Biarmicus. Lives mainly in areas with dense reedbeds. Main areas they are found in the UK are East Anglia, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and an isolated colony in Eastern Scotland. The males have two dark markings starting from their eyes which look like a moustache.

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

cormies enjoying the sunny day.

@ Stanmer park

@ Stanmer park

Up close male Goosander showing his saw-bill

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01z2vn8/live on 6.4.14

taken in my front garden in plymouth devon on 4th april 2011

Looked like meadow pipit, but there was a pair, on rocks, on the Dorset coast path.

a hole under the fence made by the passge of small animals..

Can anybody please confirm what this is ?

Common Darter - sitting by the pond in the garden - it was a magic moment as I had only just read about the challenge - grabbed my camera - went outside to see what I could see......

Up close male Goosander showing his saw-bill

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Mother and Child at Five Arches

Still image taken from video footage

Nikon ZF / 100-400S.

Early evening at Ambleside in the Lake District.

Sums up Spring BGPD. Some Tim, some Dave and some daffodils.

robins squabbling

Oddly flowering purple foxglove. Grew in same spot last year.

Great spotted woodpecker gathering food for young