I explained that a type of #wasp was digging a burrow into which she would take a caterpillar, paralysed by her sting so the larva that hatched from the egg she would lay on it would have fresh food.
I hear Skylarks quite often, but they tend to be so high up in the sky I can't see them. So as you can imagine, getting to within a few metres of this one, close to the ground at Stiperstones National Nature Reserve in Shropshire at the end of May, was a very special experience.
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker lands on an old stump in front of me as the mid morning sun lights it up. Behind it is a dark corner of hedgerow that leaves just the top of the stump and the Woodpecker lit up in the foreground. I really like how this has came out, just the Woodpecker and its perch, and absolutely no distraction in the background ❤️. #Wildlife#WildlifePhotography#Natur#NaturFotografie#Nature#Birds
Or possibly, Common Lizards - it's all a question of scale. 😉 Photographed on the boardwalk to one of the hides at Teifi Marshes near Cardigan, Wales, earlier this month.
[🧵 1/2] "Is that black thing on the wall up there a bird, or just a black thing?" I asked my brother Rob. There had been a family of #Ravens near that spot earlier, so we slowly approached—and found that one of the youngsters had been left behind.