Blog: summer

A small white-ish feather floating on a dark background - difficult to tell whether it's on water or ice

Feathers

Taking a different look at birds...

Long-tailed tit perched on a twig in front of a reed bed. It's a sunny winter day and the bird has its back to the photographer (long black tail, black/brown/grey wings with a dark and light grey head turned to the side)

Mumruffins

Mumruffins, lollipop birds, lotties...

Notch-horned cleg - fly with furry face and colourful eyes with z-g-zag patterns

Stealth and beauty

Taking a closer look at the (slightly) misunderstood world of horseflies...

Yellow flowers of ragwort

Golden rays

Diving into the sunshine world of ragwort...

Common carder bee (gingery bumblebee) on pink buddleia flowers

Buzzing buddleia

Exploring the (sometimes controversial) world of a garden favourite...

7-spot ladybird (red beetle with black spots on wing cases) sitting amongst frothy creamy flowers of cow parsley

Ladybird, ladybird

Take a look at the spotty (and not-so-spotty) world of ladybirds...

Abnormal growth of a knopper gall on an oak tree - knobbly green uneven growth of an acorn - with normal growth of acorns on the same branch (photo by Wendy Carter)

A galling time of year

Knobbly knoppers, silky buttons and fluffy pincushions; it must be gall time...

Green bush-cricket with spots on its body and very long antennae sitting on a leaf with an orange background (by Wendy Carter)

It's simply not (a) cricket

Explore the buzzing in the undergrowth as we take a closer look at crickets and grasshoppers...

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