
Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major108 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major102 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major100 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major91 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool, this beautiful female Great Spotted Woodpecker is a new garden sighting here
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female Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra89 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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female Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra92 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
a first ever sighting for me
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Hazel - Corylus avellana85 viewsthe tiny red female flowers of Hazel trees
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female Southern Hawker - Aeshna cyanea95 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Female Lasioglossum species46 viewsPhotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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female Beautiful Demoiselle - Calopteryx virgo89 viewsphotographed @ Hay Bridge (members only) Nature Reserve
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)139 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Large Red damselfly - Pyrrhosoma nymphula134 viewsphotographed @ Meathop Moss, this is a female in the dark melanotum form
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Notch-horned Cleg Fly - Haematopota pluvialis123 viewstheir eyes maybe amazing/fascinating, but female Clegs gorge on blood & give a painful bite
photographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Hoverfly - female Eristalis intricarius103 viewsphotographed @ Foulshaw Moss
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Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla136 viewswe've had a couple of males visit the garden previously, but this was the first female Blackcap to visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)157 viewsphotographed in our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus144 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus116 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus123 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus126 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus132 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Goldcrest - Regulus regulus134 viewspoor record shots taken in the gloom & through double glazing, it was a huge thrill to see male & female Goldcrests visit our garden in Bispham, Blackpool
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Sphaerophoria scripta (female)113 viewsSHOT 1 of 6, 20/08/2013 @ 14:22
photographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Meadow Plant Bug - Leptopterna dolabrata (female)130 viewsphotographed@ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Hoverfly - female Sphaerophoria species81 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
the females can't be identified any more precisely than this unless examined in a lab - you'd have to really want to know what species it is to go to those lengths
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Hoverfly - female Sphaerophoria species83 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
the females can't be identified any more precisely than this unless examined in a lab - you'd have to really want to know what species it is to go to those lengths
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Sphaerophoria sp. (female)86 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)145 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Tawny Mining Bee - Andrena fulva (female)138 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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Lesser Black-backed Gulls - Larus fuscus119 viewsI think they could be females, photographed @ Marton Mere, Blackpool
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shot 2 of 4 - "a failed mating attempt"121 viewsthe male makes a clumsy lunge towards the female
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Shot 1 of 11 of a pair of Grebes mating125 viewsthe female settles at the nest
photographed @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major187 viewsthis female was busily drumming away - I didn't think the females drummed??
photographed @ Stanley Park, Blackpool
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Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major185 viewsthis female was busily drumming away - I didn't think the females drummed??
photographed @ Stanley Park, Blackpool
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89 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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80 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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99 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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96 viewsa female ovipositing - photographed in the Vendée, France
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum148 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Meadow Plant Bug - Leptopterna dolabrata (female)171 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula129 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula120 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula127 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula126 viewsthis female came quite a lot closer than the Goldeneyes I've previously seen at Marton Mere, Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus137 viewsphoto'd through the double glazing & in poor light (ISO1600 & 1/30th sec shutter speed - yikes)
wearing a green syrup as a cunning disguise ;-) this female Sparrowhawk checks out the birds visiting the feeders in our garden
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus131 viewsphoto'd through the double glazing & in poor light (ISO1600, lens wide open @ F6.3 & 1/125th sec shutter speed)
wearing a green syrup as a cunning disguise ;-) this female Sparrowhawk checks out the birds visiting the feeders in our garden
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus220 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus188 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus143 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus147 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus145 viewsflying in front of the green container hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
perhaps it should be renamed the Harrier Hide ;-)
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus145 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus144 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus129 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus132 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus129 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus127 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus135 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus128 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus117 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus131 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus131 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus134 viewsbeing moved on by a Grey Heron
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus130 viewsa record shot of a Grey Heron mobbing the visiting Marsh Harrier
photographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus146 viewsphotographed from the FBC Hide @ Marton Mere nature reserve, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum105 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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female Common Carder-bee - Bombus Pascuorum87 viewsphotographed in our garden, Bispham, Blackpool
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I'm thinking it's a female ;-)68 viewsphotographed @ Marton Mere nature reserve Blackpool
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Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus126 viewsa crappy photo & you can just about make this female out, after landing on my neighbours garage roof i had to photo her through various foliage.
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Mallards displaying courtship behaviour190 viewstwo males here competing for the attention of the nearby females
photographed @ Stanley Park Blackpool
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta458 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta115 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta109 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta118 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta114 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta112 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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Migrant Hawker - Aeshna mixta107 viewsa new visitor to our garden, an immature female
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female Sparrowhawk- Accipiter nisus113 viewssheltering from the rain @ Mere Sands Wood Wildlife Trust nature reserve
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mating Common Blue butterflies (Image 1 of 10)136 viewsThe male spots the female & approaches from the rear - ooh err missus, she'll do
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Common Blue Damselfly (female) - Enallagma cyathigerum128 viewsphotographed @ Devonshire Road Rock Gardens, Blackpool
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