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Here are the wonderful images that have been submitted throughout the months of May, June, July and August 2024. Thank you to all those who have submitted their photos.

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Bluebells Of Scotland

This photograph was taken in Dr. Neil's beautiful garden in Edinburgh on a bluebell viewing outing. I like the contrast of colours between the flower and the tree; the red and blue works very well. It highlights and focuses on the bluebell against a spectacular background, captured in late Spring.

Dianne
East Lothian u3a

Buzz Off Im Fishing

Nice to capture this Crane ready to swoop for a passing fish. Taken in the Norfolk Broad’s

Paul
Torridge u3a

Chinese Dragon Found In The Lake District

This photograph was taken on a recent walk next to Aira Force, a spectacular waterfall in the Lake District. The unusual shapes within the old tree, plus the addition of moss covered tree stumps gives this an illusion of being a Chinese Dragon!

Angela
Balsall Common u3a

Dont Come Any Closer

This Long eared owl overwintered with its mate in an overgrown pen on farm land. The group were able to see it as despite it being a night hunter was regularly out during the day.

Liz
Oldham and District u3a

Duck On Ice

Bangor, Northern Ireland

Iris
Ards and Peninsula u3a

Early Dew On A Dandelion Seed Head

I was out for an early morning walk through our local woods and loved how the low rays of sun picked out the dew on this dandelion seed head.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Elegant Wild Chervil

Langdon Nature Reserve has an abundance of wild flowers. I loved the elegance and the changing colours of this wild chervil.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Firebugs

European Firebugs, found strolling along in Gunners Park Shoeburyness Essex. A fairly recent invader, but they've hugely spread now.

Ruth
Leigh Estuary u3a

Enchanted

I am enchanted with this old-fashioned flower; Purple Perennial (Centaurea Montana) with its lacy petals that I found in my son’s garden. I was so surprised to find out that it was mentioned in Ancient Greek mythology. Chiron, the centaur (half-man, half-horse), was said to have used these flowers to heal wounds. How fascinating!

Andri
Banbury u3a

Family Of Canada Geese

This delightful little family of Canada Geese was seen in the moat at Scotney Castle near the beginning of June.

Sue
Leigh Estuary u3a

Coming In To Land

On a boat trip to the Farne Islands to see the seabirds and grey seals but especially the puffins.

Alan
Solihull Widney u3a

Feeding The Family

Taken in my garden just after the grass had been cut. clearly a good time to collect food for hungry mouths.

Peter
Chorley u3a

Fishing On The Lake At Barston

I was on a walk around the lake at Barston and saw some black-headed gulls taking fish from the middle of the lake. I was lucky enough to get this photo after several attempts.

Alan
Solihull Widney u3a

Frodo

We stayed at a relative's rambling farmhouse in Wales and Frodo is one of a few horses that live there. He was an RSPCA rescue from many years ago and is a dearly loved member of the family. He has a very gentle nature and is living out his days in peace and tranquility.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Hide And Seek

I almost missed this greenfinch feasting on the seed heads amongst a carpet of blue borage.

Sue
Newquay u3a

Holly Blue

As we had seen very few butterflies in our garden this year I was delighted when this Holly Blue stopped for a few seconds: just enough time for me to take a quick snap. It would have been better had it have been in the flower but pleased to see it nonetheless.

Sue
Leigh Estuary u3a

I'm Watching You

Took a photo of this Cormorant in the Norfolk Broads. Love the shades of the feathers and the green eyes.

Paul
Torridge u3a

Inquisitive Robin

I was gardening today and our friendly robin paid a visit. I imagine he was gathering food for his young as they are nesting nearby.

David
Cottingham u3a

Jay

I was lucky enough to spend several minutes with this beautiful creature

Steve
Northallerton u3a

Lakeside Tree With Roots

During a lovely lakeside walk by Ullswater in the Lake District there were several trees standing only on their bare roots due to the water washing the earth from them. They looked unusual and quite fragile.

Angela
Balsall Common u3a

Might Be Something Nice In Here

Walking around Narborough, Norfolk after a shower and saw this Blackbird searching along the edge of a puddle.

Alan
Wissey u3a, Norfolk

Nature Sends Its Love

Taken in the woods, this lovely heart formation of new life, felt like a greeting from nature

Dawn
Ilkley & District u3a

Preparing For Take Off

I was at a stunning local NGS garden and loved the complimentary colours of the fly and the flower.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Raven At Bosham West Sussex

The photo was taken on the coastal road around bosham. The raven was hopping about a lot and was picking through the seaweed for bits to eat, it also posed for the camera for a while which allowed me to get this shot of it

Kieran
Waterlooville u3a

Stunning Clematis

There is a saying about clematis: “The first year they sleep, the second they creep, and the third year they leap.” I was away for two weeks and when I came back I found my son’s vine blooming in large striking flowers. Stunning, isn’t it?

Andri
Banbury u3a

Sunset On The Fells

During our recent holiday near to Watermillock, and not far from Ullswater, on a lovely spring evening the sunset looked beautiful reflected onto the nearby fells.

Angela
Balsall Common u3a

Swan Lake Wannabees

Always plenty of waterfowl to see Hanningfield Reservoir Nature Discovery Park. These two Greylag geese amused me with their co-ordinated movement.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Taking A Drink

Photo was taken in my son's garden in Konstanz, Germany. This red squirrel came down and decided to drink from the bird bath.

David
Cottingham u3a

The Amazing Handkerchief Tree

Found in Sir Harold Hillier Gardens Hampshire this week, the tree was putting on a spectacular show with its two large bright-white bracts fluttering in the breeze. Made it easy to see how it gained it's other common name Dove Tree.

Sue
Leigh Estuary u3a

The Munching Muntjac Stare

Taken in a garden in North Norfolk with plentiful daisies which Mr Munjac never stopped munching.

Ruth
Leigh Estuary u3a

The Rare Turtle Dove

Our guide in Norfolk knew exactly where to go to see this elusive visitor, its purring song was so distinct.

Liz
Oldham and District u3a

This Hawker Took A Fancy To Me

This was taken in north Norfolk when there were many dragonflies and insects about. What a wonderful are for wildlife so much so our group ran a holiday down there.

Liz
Oldham and District u3a

This Tastes Good

Eating mushrooms on an RSPB reserve on one of our trips. Taking every opportunity to eat.

Liz
Oldham and District u3a

Upside Down!

When a local East Devon farmer changed to keeping sheep rather than cows, he installed a stock fence alongside the existing line of barbed wire. To do this he improvised by using small pre-cut tree trunks or branches as posts. Here you can see a post that has been driven into the ground ‘upside down’. Nature, being always adaptable, ensured that the post rooted at the ‘top’ and sprouted new growth from the ‘bottom’.

Jenny
Sidmouth u3a

"What Did You Say?"

Moonriver Bushcamp, Bokkeveld, South Africa

Caroline
York u3a

What Would You Like Me To Sing

Along the River Torridge in Devon

Paul
Torridge u3a

White Bluebell

A very rare white bluebell taken in bluebell wood Worcestershire.

Angela
Balsall Common u3a

Woodpecker Deliveroo

I took this photograph of a mother lesser spotted woodpecker feeding her fledgeling 'son' as they gorged on peanuts from one of our birdfeeders, this afternoon.

Lynne
Crediton u3a

I'm Watching You

Took a photo of this Cormorant in the Norfolk Broads. Love the shades of the feathers and the green eyes.

Paul
Torridge u3a

A Heron A Cormorant And A Coot Sharing A Branch

This was taken on the Grand Union Canal, near Tring in Herts, from our narrowboat. Heron are common on many canals but coots and moorhens tend to be mutually exclusive although we have seen exceptions to this. Cormorants are rare on canals but we’ve often seen them on rivers.

Kathie
Ely u3a

Almost Ready For The Harvest

This was taken on a recent meander in Goldhanger in Essex. I liked how the paths created leading lines down to the trees at the edge of the field.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Best Foot Forward

House Sparrow, Garden, Leigh on Sea, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Camera Shy

It was a hot day in the countryside and these cows seemed to be trying to keep a cooler head under the tree in the midday sun.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Colourful Dragonfly

This Dragonfly took a very quick rest in a pond at Melford Hall, Suffolk, at the beginning of August: just loved the colouring when it landed on the flowers.

Sue
Leigh Estuary u3a

Cormorant

Cormorant, Abberton Reservoir, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Dinner Time

We were on a walk in Wareham Forest in Dorset and came across these wild pigs. I have never seen wild pigs before, they weren't at all bothered by all the walkers taking photos.

Tina
Balsall Common u3a

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Garden, Leigh on Sea, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Juvenile Great Tit

Juvenile Great Tit, Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Little Egret Nest Building

Little Egret nest building, Abberton Reservoir, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Prickly Nature

The sunlight on this teasel seemed to emphasise its prickles.

Annie
Leigh Estuary u3a

Sea Eagle

A White Tailed Eagle taking a fish near Portree, Isle of Skye.

Lance
Whitby Whaler u3a

A Small Creek At Derbyhaven

Jim
Balsall Common u3a

Bee Orchid

Conwy RSPB Reserve growing at the side of the path.

Monica
Sheffield u3a

Bizarre Beegrabber

Lucky to snap this weird looking wasp-mimic, Conopid Fly in Canvey Wick. Conopids are not rare but I had never before seen this amazing species. It's a Waisted Beegrabber (Physocephala rufipes), one of several species whose females parasitise bumble bees in flight (though I'm told this is a male). Their method well documented on-line but not for the faint-hearted!

Richard
Leigh Estuary u3a

Cumulus Clouds

These clouds were gathering over North Barrule on the Isle of Man.

Jim
Balsall Common u3a

Early One Morning

On an early morning dog walk around a local nature reserve, I spied this little fellow relaxing on a leaf, its 2 sets of tentacles outstretched. The sun glanced off its spirals, accentuating its beauty.

Susan
Balsall Common u3a

Ephemeral Fungus

Snooping around the woods with my macro lens, I came across this single, lucent mushroom, catching the light in its gills, suggesting an ephemeral fragility. Is it a rosegill? An inverted parasol?

Susan
Balsall Common u3a

First Glance At What Is Outside Home

This was the first Great Tit to peak outside the box but sadly, as we had to go out, we missed the family 'flying the nest' this year. (Taken at the end of June in the garden).

Sue
Leigh Estuary u3a

Fortuitous Threesome

Wandering with my camera Canvey Wick, I spotted this Essex Skipper nectaring on a Pyramidal Orchid. Only when I got home and examined the photo, did I notice the Sixteen-spot Ladybird hiding in the top of the flower. So definitely a lucky threesome. In fact a foursome if one counts the 'pollinium' (I was told), stuck to the butterfly's proboscis; every day's a schoolday!

Richard
Leigh Estuary u3a

Four Banded Bee Grabbers Mating

I watched them flying in our garden paired like this, and when they settled I crept quietly close and took this shot with my Olympus OM1 with an M.Zuiko 60mm Macro. Bee Grabbers are parasitic on bees, especially Bumble bees, and grab them like this before laying an egg in their abdomen.

Daniel
Both HOLYWOOD and ARDS and NORTH DOWN u3as

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker, Garden, Leigh on Sea, Essex.

Graham
Leigh Estuary u3a

Grey Seals Basking In The Sunshine

These seals were taking advantage of the warm sunshine on Kitterland which is situated in the Calf Sound between the Isle of Man and the Calf of Man. Kitterland is an uninhabited islet owned by the Manx National Trust covering less than four hectares.

Jim
Balsall Common u3a

Happiness On A Hot Day

Taken at Beaumaris Castle on a very warm sunny day. This seagull had commandeered the dogs water dish to cool it's feet.

Dawn
Ilkley & District u3a

Hedgehog Route

Dianne
East Lothian u3a

Immature Song Thrush

One evening in early June my wife and I were watching the news on television at out home in Bangor, Co. Down when there was an almighty bang on the window. When we looked out the window and there was this immature Song Thrush on the ground looking like he was about to expire. However when we picked him up we realised he was still living though seriously stunned. A little drink of water seemed to revive him somewhat, but not enough to be able to fly, so we placed him in a concealed area under a nearby hedge. We checked on him before going to bed, and he was still there, unmoved, but by the time we got up in the morning he had gone.

Michael
North Down and Ards u3a

Knitting Lessons Needed

This busy spider seemed to be having trouble with his Stocking and Purl stiches

Peter
Chorley u3a

Landscape In North Nottingham

Park in Basford Nottingham.

David
Beeston u3a

Luminous Imposter

Found this stunning but harmless, wasp-mimic, hoverfly, Chrystoxum cautum (Large Spearhorn) in a local re-wilded churchyard in Leigh-on-Sea. Seemingly like the rest of the country, this oasis of nature in the town centre has been very quiet this year but it did yield this first-ever sighting for me.

Richard
Leigh Estuary u3a

Messy Eater

Bees are my passion and I photographed this female Andrena (Mining Bee) in Belton Hills NR in Essex. It cannot be positively identified from this photo (though I think it is possibly a Large Meadow Mining Bee, Andrena labialis) but I was delighted that the camera/lens produced such good detail of its complicated tongue apparatus, even showing (what I assume) is a tiny blob of nectar. Sadly, not all my photos are so well focussed!

Richard
Leigh Estuary u3a

Monogrammed Butterfly

A White-letter Hairstreak Butterfly, photographed in a lane close to my home In Leigh-on-Sea. Most of my invertebrate photography is purely random and I operate on a 'shoot first and identify later' basis. But I'm lucky to have is an establised site for this lovely butterfly nearby and it is one of the few creatures that I specifically target in June.

Richard
Leigh Estuary u3a

Nature's Bridal Bouquet

This stunning bouquet is perfect for a summer wedding! Isn’t it? It was taken in Bloxham.

Adri
Banbury u3a

Nature's Corsage

Nature provides a lovingly corsage … Ready to be worn by a lucky girl at her prom dance.

Andri
Banbury u3a

Pygmy Owl

Taken in a friends studio, this small captive pygmy owl was taken on a handlers glove, just to show the comparison of how small these tiny owls are.

Alan
Longton (Stoke on Trent South) u3a

Reflective Nature

Groomsport, Northern Ireland.

Iris
Ards and Peninsula u3a

Scruffy Blue Tit Chick

Back garden fence, Narborough, Norfolk. The chick hung around on the fence for a while while parents flew back and forth feeding it, then it fluttered into the overhanging tree branch and was lost to sight.

Alan
Wissey u3a (Norfolk)

Sky On Fire

Just looking out of my window at the amazing evening sky.

Eileen
Sidmouth u3a

Species Diversity

This photo was taken during Great Big Green Week (8th – 16th June) at St Mary’s Church in Bloxham. According to local botanist, author and photographer, Peter Sheasby, there are over 100+ species of flowers in Bloxham Churchyard.

Andri
Banbury u3a

Spotted Longhorn On A Sweet Little Betsy

Photo was taken in the garden of Bickham House, Kenn, Devon

Alison
Honiton u3a

Survival

This evergreen climber, English Ivy, reminds us that our spirits are capable of thriving even in the harshest conditions. A non hand-made hanging basket in Bloxham.

Angela
Banbury u3a

Magnificent Fir Cone!

Fir cone of the Abies delavayi pine tree. Native to China but doing very well here in East Devon!

Val
Honiton u3a

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