What's Buzzing or Flying near you today.... 2014

Love the squirrel Jenny. Woo is right, the picture is spot on!

 

Sheer fluke Sheal. My Lumix FZ45 was set on AUTO. The light and the angle were just right for the shot ,
Jenny
it was his little throaty growl that made me smile..

 

Perfect shot Jenny, very sharp.

 

This has been hanging around my pots this afternoon, the underside of the wings are all red

 

It's a Cinnabar

 

A moth trying to be a butterfly no less.

 

It's beautiful regardless a nice splash of colour

 

Brings back SOOO many childhood memories Jiffy. I think it likes Ragwort flower - if my memory serves me correctly,
Jenny

 

Yep it love Ragwort

 

We have cinnabar moths visiting us every now and then, but haven't seen one this year yet.

In the pas few days we have a lot of scarlet tiger moths dancing about. This evening I counted 6 flattering above, unfortunately they didn't settle much, apart from this one landed high up in an ash tree. Thanks to the high zoom on the camera and my breath holding exercises , managed this shot.


Meadow brown feeding on the wild flowers


Saw this Snail Killing Fly (Sciomyzidae), looks like it had a lucky escape from some kind of attack, lost 2 legs but alive . I wish we had more of this fly around since there are an awful lot of snails and slugs about and it's larvae parasitises the slimy little b....rs.

 

I took these on Saturday after waiting patiently for an hour. These are not that common here on the island.

Great Black Backed Gull




Herring Gull

 

What a lovely sight from above. That wide black back is very different ,
thanks for showing him to us Sheal,
Jenny

 

Must mean there's alot of Ragwort about this year, never had Ragwort in the garden before but this year i've pulled up 6 plants, it mite be because last year one neighbour didn't pull up he's Ragwort before it seeded