Comma feasting on blackberries

All creatures great and small

Tiny froglet

Badger tracks

Leafcutter bee at work

Comma butterfly

Manx Loghtans just after shearing

Looking fleecier... just before leaving The Lodge

photos taken with iPhone 4S

Lepidoptera

 

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

First of the year

photo taken with iPhone and Hipstamatic app

Leaves and stuff

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

A sunny autumn day at The Lodge

Fungi...

Fly Agaric

Fly Agaric

Common Puffball (edible at this age, I think)

Sweet Chestnuts...

...beloved of Grey Squirrels

Red Admiral

Comma

Comma

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Garden life

Comma

Rhododendron Leafhopper - meet Garden Spider

'orrible looking thing

Slightly more pleasant-looking fly

Owl and a friend

All the squirrels' Christmases have come at once

Honeysuckle bearing fruit, but who's going to eat it?

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D, EF 300mm f/4L IS USM

Sunny Sunday

Comma on blackberries

Red Admiral

male Southern Hawker basking

Painted Lady on valerian

Rosehips

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D + EF 300mm f/4L IS USM, Extender EF 1.4x II

Butterflies and moth

With the hot weather this weekend, I haven't been in the mood for much more than lounging around in the garden. It's been great. Butterflies have gathered in numbers on our 10-feet high Buddleia bush:

Peacock

Brimstone

Large White

Small Tortoiseshell

Gatekeeper

Meadow Brown

Large Skipper

Peacock and Comma

And then this creature turned up:

Hummingbird Hawkmoth!
I've been growing Valerian in preparation for attracting 'Hummers' but this one found the Buddleia perfectly adequate. It did some funny things: feeding happily one second, then whizzing off at rooftop-height over the wheat field, before appearing back on the flowers again within a few seconds

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D + EF 300mm f/4L IS USM or Canon Powershot A640