Wildlife photos please

[cheops]

What a gorgeous flower as well as the butterfly. Beautiful photo.

[cheops]

Flavours of autumn

A series of clay pit lakes and an area of woodland provides a haven for wildlife. Blackberries are ripening everywhere providing a feast for both birds and animals [even foxes]. Fallen crab apples provide yet another feast for so many. Rose hips too make up a fantastic autumnal larder. These two swans feed here and each spring nest amongst the bull rushes. And this smaller and shallower pond moves as if alive due to the large number of jostling fogs eager to mate in early spring.

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Enter man!

The same lakes and woodland. Look carefully at the swans - a fisherman’s float can be seen and no doubt below it fishing line and a hook[s]. Three years ago a swan was found dead on a bank with fisherman’s line tangled around its neck and head.
A discarded empty can of sweetcorn despite two litter bins within 50feet. Sweetcorn is often used by the fishermen as bait.
One of two piles of fishing line I discovered lying in the grass. I find such often. Two years ago a long eared owl was found hanging from a tree branch because fishing line caught around its feet had now caught onto the tree branch. Next someone has taken the trouble to carry an old pram and discard it despite there is a council collection centre half a mile down the road. And general litter everywhere.
That frog pond shown in my last post might become very soon simply a pond. Someone has thrown into it two red eared terrapins almost the size of dinner plates. They will within a couple of years clear that pond of all life - even coot and moorhen chicks.
There are times I am ashamed to be part of the human race.

[burnie]

Shame folk trash the countryside like that, our fishing club organizes litter pick ups on the lochs and on the beaches, still some ruin it for the ones who care about the environment.

[cheops]

I agree burnie. It is as usual a minority who ruin things. I should have emphasised that many of the fisherman at these lakes are responsible in their actions and only a minority trash. Your fishing club are a credit and are to be complemented.

[Martin H]

Anyone know what these little bugs are on my runner beans? They look a bit like tiny harlequin ladybirds...



(edit) Got it! They are mid instar nymphs of the Southern Green Shield Bug. https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heter..._viridula.html.
Probably.

[Small pumpkin]

Little sea urchin

[mrbadexample]

Some lousy phone camera photos:





And it must be nearly Christmas:

[DannyK]

Spotted these two on the loose in Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew, yesterday.https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667.../shares/9NW0jg

[Small pumpkin]

Very cool Chinese water dragons I think.

[jackarmy]

Ell?
nice pic Burnie.

[veggiechicken]

How beautiful! Thanks for sharing, burnie.

[Jay22]

Great photos Burnie, saw my first ever red squirrel in Ayrshire at the weekend.

[DannyK]

Flickr screwing free members again!

Burnie did you click through the bit at the bottom of Flickr? They're changing the free to a maximum of 1,000 photos!

At a cursory look any pics in excess of 1,000 will have to find a home elsewhere or one has to cough up for the pro version.

That's a bit of a come down from 1TB !

I did fork out for pro when they removed the uploader from free!

It doesn't seem too bad as all the other cloud storage apps charge above a relatively low amount. Another thing to watch out for is what compression you can use. Google may still restrict file size unlike Flickr.

[burnie]

Yes Danny much discussion on some camera forums, I rotate most of my images, so I never get anywhere near a 1000, any images I want to keep are on my external hard drive.