Show Us Your Great Photos - Pt2

Winsford Soul · July 18, 2015

Cuckoo looks bigger this week, must be all those insects the Reed Warblers are shovelling in ...

Oi Mr Pitt. Have you no work to do. :ohmy: I'm only jealous mate. I've not heard never mind seen a cuckoo for maybe five years.

Steve

Mike · July 19, 2015

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Suzannek · July 19, 2015

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Suzannek · July 19, 2015

Red Admiral Butterfly; Dame Violets; Meadow Brown butterfly; Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly and Common Spotted Orchid

Suzannek · July 19, 2015

Meadow Cranesbill, White Campion and Northern Marsh Orchid taken along the Tees Railway Walk a couple of weeks ago

Peter99 · July 19, 2015

Meadow Cranesbill, White Campion and Northern Marsh Orchid taken along the Tees Railway Walk a couple of weeks ago

Hi Suz

Lovely pictures. i hope you are well and life is smiling on you.

P

x

Suzannek · July 19, 2015

Hi Suz
Lovely pictures. i hope you are well and life is smiling on you.
P
x

Thanks Peter yes am loving life at present. Been walking loads

suz x

Autumnstoned · July 20, 2015

Cuckoo looks bigger this week, must be all those insects the Reed Warblers are shovelling in ...

Enjoyed looking at your cuckoo photo's. They're brilliant!

Martyn Pitt · July 20, 2015

Enjoyed looking at your cuckoo photo's. They're brilliant!

Glad that you liked them, not something that you see too often. We could not locate it on Sunday, it could be off fending for itself now it can fly fairly well.

With any luck we may have some others, the adult would have laid 10 - 15 eggs in various nests around the reserve.

Suzannek · July 20, 2015

Glad that you liked them, not something that you see too often. We could not locate it on Sunday, it could be off fending for itself now it can fly fairly well.
With any luck we may have some others, the adult would have laid 10 - 15 eggs in various nests around the reserve.

Not seen a cuckoo but heard it loads around my area this year after an absence of a few years

Soulandy · July 20, 2015

Mmmmmmmmm, a few Greek Island photo's on here just recently. Here's a few more from Skopelos last week. Where did that go then!!!!

Skopelos Harbour

Our Blue pool

Enjoying a late night drink overlooking the Harbour

Watching the sun go down

Suzannek · July 20, 2015

Look at it this lovely hybrid of a Common Spotted Orchid and Northern Marsh Orchid, so pretty. Taken along Tees Railway Walk near Romaldkirk in Teesdale on 7 July 2015

Tattoodave · July 21, 2015

Look at it this lovely hybrid of a Common Spotted Orchid and Northern Marsh Orchid, so pretty. Taken along Tees Railway Walk near Romaldkirk in Teesdale on 7 July 2015

Well spotted Suze, a rarity, hybrids do occur, but not that often. I hope it's well hidden.

Suzannek · July 21, 2015

Suzannek · July 21, 2015

Well spotted Suze, a rarity, hybrids do occur, but not that often. I hope it's well hidden.

This one was out in the open, just near the Northern Marsh Orchd I posted up earlier near a ditch

Tattoodave · July 21, 2015

This one was out in the open, just near the Northern Marsh Orchd I posted up earlier near a ditch

That's a shame as it'll become well known on the grapevine and the Northern Marsh Orchids will probably get trodden on as the ones that want to photograph a rarely seen hybrid brush them aside as commonplace. It happens in Spain a lot, they even try and dig them up. Let's hope there's not many find it.

Suzannek · July 21, 2015

They are all beautiful mind, the butterflies and bees thought so too !

Suz x

Tattoodave · July 22, 2015

They are all beautiful mind, the butterflies and bees thought so too !
Suz x

They hold a big fascination for me, don't see many butterflies on them here, they prefer the scabious, though they aren't flowering now, the bees and sawfly enjoy them though.

The only chance of seeing anything in flower round here that isn't a garden escapee or in a garden is on the high slopes of the Sierra Nevada where the alpines will be in flower. A 6-7 hour round trip, and that's without climbing time, the summit takes about 3 hours to reach, and is quite an effort in this heat, we should see 36C by the sea today.

Martyn Pitt · July 25, 2015

Cold, raining and windy ... could only be a typical British Summers day

Cuckoo was well concealed today, managed a House Martin after insects just above the surface of the water

Winsford Soul · July 25, 2015

Cold, raining and windy ... could only be a typical British Summers day
Cuckoo was well concealed today, managed a House Martin after insects just above the surface of the water

Wonderful picture Martyn.

Hopes you and the lovely Carol are good.

Steve

Martyn Pitt · July 25, 2015

Not too bad Steve thanks, hope yourself and Lou are ok.

Hope to get out a bit more in the next few months

Winsford Soul · July 25, 2015

Not too bad Steve thanks, hope yourself and Lou are ok.
Hope to get out a bit more in the next few months

We,re fine thank you sir. Just starting to get ready for playing out at Radcliffe nighter. You know me mate.

Be great to see you both out and about again, seems like ages

Steve

Ncfc · July 26, 2015

Cold, raining and windy ... could only be a typical British Summers day
Cuckoo was well concealed today, managed a House Martin after insects just above the surface of the water

Fantastic shot.Hardly see one round here these days.Sand martins don't like Caister on Sea anymore either.

Martyn Pitt · July 26, 2015

We have several wooden benches dotted around the reserve, every year you can guarantee seeing a Ruddy Darter resting on this one particular bench when the sun has been out to warm it up.

Suzannek · July 26, 2015

A lovely big Bumble bee on the Rosebay Willow Herb down the Gaunless Circular walk on 24.7.15

Tattoodave · July 27, 2015

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Just to prove that I don't just grow Mescal button cactus, however, I am waiting on a delivery of San Pedro cactus at the moment :hypo:

Tattoodave · July 27, 2015

Buda side of Budapest, an interesting city, full of culture and a goodly amount of pickpockets

Tattoodave · July 27, 2015

an old photo, but my first attempt at a lengthy exposure, it was stopped short by the car owner that the camera was resting on returning from his meal.

Stateside · July 27, 2015

Had a great week in Port De Soller in Mallorca last week although it was too bleedin' hot!

My daughters on our balcony at sunset all dolled up & ready to go out. Taken on my phone, as I won't take my DSLR anywhere near sand.

Kev

Soulfinger · July 28, 2015

This fella successfully nested in my garden earlier in the summer.

Soulfinger · July 28, 2015

Probably been done before but some big soulful wood carving from the canal near Pennington Flash....

Carcassonne Castle.

Philb · July 29, 2015

Took a pic of this fine specimen the other night.

Philippe · July 29, 2015

After more than a month of drought we had a little rain this morning. While walking to my garden I met this beauty.

It's very rare to see a salamander by day, only during a rain period. The cats didn't care a lot about her, she was too slow.for them.

Soulfinger · July 29, 2015

Cats provide good scale!

Winsford Soul · July 29, 2015

After more than a month of drought we had a little rain this morning. While walking to my garden I met this beauty.
It's very rare to see a salamander by day, only during a rain period. The cats didn't care a lot about her, she was too slow.for them.

Nice picture of the rather exotic salamander Phillippe. Unfortunately we have nothing that exotic in the UK apart from male great crested newts in the breeding season.

Steve

Winsford Soul · July 29, 2015

Well my battery charger for my camera has just popped. Two flat batteries and no way to charge them.

Me thinks it's the perfect excuse to finally go out and treat myself to the New Canon eos 7d mk2. It's down to about £1400 body only plus I will get a few hundred quid trade in.

Steve

Philippe · July 29, 2015

Nice picture of the rather exotic salamander Phillippe. Unfortunately we have nothing that exotic in the UK apart from male great crested newts in the breeding season.
Steve

Thanks Steve, your great crested newt is as much exotic to me. Where I'm living there are more trees than water and in my whole life (I'm 59) I only saw it one specimen swimming in a pond.

I was very happy to meet that salamander, that means there's still some wild life in the area.

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Amsterdam Russ · July 29, 2015

Caught a warming ray of evening sunlight shining through the blinds and partially illuminating one of the sunflowers we've got in a vase on the table...

In other news, I've now twice spied a peregrine while on the back balcony. They usually nest on the nearby art deco water tower that's about half a mile from us. Typically it's front page news on the local paper, but don't think I've seen or read anything about them breeding this year. My two sightings in recent days suggests that they did.

Tattoodave · July 29, 2015

Nice picture of the rather exotic salamander Phillippe. Unfortunately we have nothing that exotic in the UK apart from male great crested newts in the breeding season.
Steve

Don't be too sure about that Steve, I saw a pair in Nottinghamshire two years ago, they hitched a lift with some plants that were imported from the continent, they were living in a poly-tunnel when I saw them.

Ceejay · August 1, 2015

AMALFI COAST IN ITALY................STUNNING!!!!

Martyn Pitt · August 1, 2015

CeeJay I would agree 100% ... stunning part of Italy

Ceejay · August 1, 2015

CeeJay I would agree 100% ... stunning part of Italy

Hi Martyn

Visited Italy for the first time last year (Sorrento).

From memory when I posted a pic of Mount Vesuvius last year, I think you put up one that was practically identical.

Just had to go back, this time to Ravello,....... jawdroppingly beautiful!!!!

Maybe to the Lakes area next time.

Caz :thumbsup:

Martyn Pitt · August 1, 2015

Hi Martyn
Visited Italy for the first time last year (Sorrento).
From memory when I posted a pic of Mount Vesuvius last year, I think you put up one that was practically identical.
Just had to go back, this time to Ravello,....... jawdroppingly beautiful!!!!
Maybe to the Lakes area next time.

Caz

I remember now ... Taormina in Sicily is nice, a current favourite