Some Waders

 

Three snipe at Venus Pool reserve.

Below, a curlew.

Giant puffball. I thought it was a football at first!

 

Spoonbills! What a surprise! At Parkgate RSPB Reserve, Neston.

Marsh Harrier over Parkgate Estuary.

Red Admiral.

Meadow Pipit.

Common Hawker

Black darter

As the Days Grow Shorter

 

It can be hard to see a Comma butterfly when it closes its wings because it looks like a dead leaf.

However, when its wings open, it's very bright and visible.

Above: toad. Below, Speckled Wood butterfly.

Baby swallows getting ready to leave the next and the UK. And a surprise redstart on Prees Heath!

Below, a Prees Heath family of flycatchers.

A watchful hare and a Migrant Hawker dragonfly.

Three UK Riparian Mammals

 A water vole, a water shrew and a wood mouse, for comparison.