Archive images - April 2019
	The first damselfly in our garden this year - an immature Large Red - Alwins Field, 30 April 2019.
	The Lily Beetle is a beautiful vivid red but it can be a garden pest; Alwins Field, 30 April 2019.
	Small Copper butterfly in Linslade Woods, 26 April 2019.
	Lady's Smock (aka Cuckoo Flower) at Tiddenfoot WP, 24 April 2019. A male Orange Tip butterfly is resting on the flower with its wings closed; Lady's Smock is one of the butterfly larva's foodplants.
	Tubifex Worms in a small pond at Tiddenfoot WP, 24 April 2019. These small worms anchor themselves and eat the organic material on the bottom of the pond and wave their tails about to collect oxygen from the brackish water. Here is a short video.
	A Common Tern at Grove Church, having just caught a fish from the canal, 22 April 2019.
	A House Martin at Grove Church, 22 April 2019.
	A Grey Wagtail on a canal boat at Grove Church, with some food for nestlings, 22 April 2019.
	A Slow Worm in King's Wood, Heath and Reach, 20 April 2019. Slow Worms are actually legless lizards. This one was about 45cm in length. Video is available here.
	A Holly Blue butterfly near the River Ouzel in Leighton Buzzard town centre, 20 April 2019.
	A young Robin in our garden, Alwins Field, 19 April 2019.
	Mute Swan attempting to add more material to her nest on the Grand Union Canal at Linslade on 19 April 2019.
	A Speckled Wood butterfly resting on brambles in Linslade Woods on 18 April 2019.
	A Reeves's Muntjac bounding past the gravestones at All Saints church, Leighton Buzzard, 17 April 2019.
	A Red Kite over Knaves Hill, 15 April 2019. Note how the forked tail is twisting to change direction.
	A Scarlet Tiger Moth larva munching on Green Alkanet in a Stanbridge Road front garden, 13 April 2019.
	An Orange-tip butterfly (male) in Linslade Woods, 11 April 2019.
	A mating pair of Ashy Mining Bees (Andrena cineraria) in Linslade Woods, 11 April 2019.
	A Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes) in Linslade Woods, 11 April 2019.
	A Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) in Linslade Woods, 11 April 2019.
	A Chiffchaff calling in Linslade Woods, 8 April 2019. There are a lot of these birds setting up their territories and feeding in the trees at present.
	There are quite a few Bluebells out in Linslade Woods, but lots more to come, 6 April 2019.
	Blackthorn blossom in Linslade Woods, 6 April 2019.
	Female Blackbird collecting nesting material in our garden for a nest she's making next door, 5 April 2019.
	A Peacock butterfly in our garden, Alwins Field, 1 April 2019. It looks as if it was attacked by a few birds last year before it went into hibernation - the beak-shaped chunks have been taken out near the eye-spots on the forewing.

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