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| This month's images - May 2022 |
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 A leatherbug (Coreus marginatus) on Alwins Field allotments, 13 May 2022. |
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 A male Blackcap at Tiddenfoot WP, 9 May 2022. It was singing very loudly in a tree by the green canal bridge. You can hear it by clicking on this link. There is the sound of a passing canal boat and there is also a Chiffchaff calling in the background. |
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 A Stock Dove at Tiddenfoot WP, 9 May 2022. |
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 It's called a Scorpion Fly because of the scorpion-like tail, which is completely harmless. It was at Tiddenfoot WP, 9 May 2022. |
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 A female Azure Damselfly at Tiddenfoot WP, 9 May 2022. Females are mostly black but the remaining parts will go blue as she matures. |
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 An Azure Damselfly emerging from its larval case, Sandhouse Lane Nature Reserve, 7 May 2022. Its wings expanded and it flew away about an hour later. |
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 Slender Groundhopper, Sandhouse Lane NR, 7 May 2022. Groundhoppers are smaller cousins of grasshoppers. They survive through the winter, unlike grasshoppers in the UK. |
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 Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly visiting our garden pond, Alwins Field, 6 May 2022. |
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 Mint moth (Pyrausta aurata), a micro-moth, Alwins Field, 5 May 2022. |
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 Large Red Damselfly, not long emerged from our garden pond, Alwins Field, 5 May 2022. |
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 Umbellifer Longhorn Beetle (Phytoecia cylindrica) in our garden, Alwins Field, 5 May 2022. |
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 Hawthorn blossom in Linslade Woods, 2 May 2022. Hawthorn is also known as May - the month when it blossoms. |
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 Bluebells in Linslade Woods, 2 May 2022. |
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