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Archive images - March 2025

Dark-edged Bee-fly
  Dark-edged Bee-fly, Linslade Woods, 28 March 2025.
 




Blackthorn Blossom
  Blackthorn Blossom, Linslade Woods, 28 March 2025.
 




Bluebell
  There are just a few Bluebells coming into flower in Linslade Woods; 27 March 2025.
 




Wood Anemones
  Wood Anemones, Linslade Woods, 27 March 2025.
 




Scarlet Tiger Moth larva
  Scarlet Tiger Moth caterpillar (larva), Beaudesert garden, 26 March 2025. There were many of these feeding on Green Alkanet.
 




Lacewing
                  - Chrysopa perla
  Lacewing (Chrysopa perla), Alwins Field, 24 March 2025.
These often overwinter in sheds and houses.
 




Dunnock
  Dunnock, Alwins Field, 23 March 2025.
They have suddenly become very active.
 




Mandarin Duck
  Mandarin Duck - drake - Stockgrove Lake, 20 March 2025.
Preening after taking a bath.
 




Minotaur Beetle - male
  Minotaur Beetle, male, near Stockgrove Lake, 20 March 2025.
He has three projections on his head and is a kind of dung beetle.
 




Common
                  Frog
  Common Frog, Alwins Field, 20 March 2025.
Negotiating the steps up to the pond, is she just resting or thinking about it? She was successful, anyway.
 




7-spot Ladybird
  7-spot Ladybird, All Saints churchyard, Leighton Buzzard,
19 March 2025.
 




Crab
                  Spider with Shield Bug prey
  A very small Crab Spider with an even smaller Shield Bug nymph that it has caught and is eating, All Saints churchyard, Leighton Buzzard, 19 March 2025. The shiny gossamer thread on the left is what the spider used to parachute down to the ground.
 




Primroses
  Primroses, All Saints churchyard, Leighton Buzzard, 19 March 2025.
 




Chiffchaff
  Chiffchaff, Alwins Field, 19 March 2025.
 




Common
                  Newt
  Common (Smooth) Newt, Alwins Field, 13 March 2025.
 




Grey
                  Wagtail
  Grey Wagtail, River Ouzel, 11 March 2025.
 




Little
                  Egret
  Little Egret in the flooded Ouzel Valley, 11 March 2025. Note the yellow feet.
 




Comma butterfly
  Comma butterfly in Linslade Woods, 9 March 2025.
 




Hairy-footed Flower Bees
  Hairy-footed Flower Bees (Anthophora plumipes) in All Saints churchyard, Leighton Buzzard, 8 March 2025. The tawny male on the right is approaching the black female with a view to mating with her - ready or not.
 




Marmalade Hoverfly
  Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus), All Saints churchyard, Leighton Buzzard, 8 March 2025. This is a female.
 




Kingfisher
  Kingfisher on the Clipstone Brook, photographed from the Grovebury footpath bridge in Parson's Close, 5 March 2025.
 




Goldcrest
  Goldcrest in St Barnabas', Linslade car park, feeding in a tree,
1 March 2025.
 




Drone fly - Eristalis tenax - female
  Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax, female) in Linslade Community Garden,
1 March 2025.




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