Holiday Continued...Insects, Moths and Butterflies...

During the holiday, I took a particular interest in the moths and butterflies as I am trying to learn more about the species and identifying them, but I am struggling a bit so if you see any misidentified species please let me know...

Whilst we were in New Quay, we decided to have a trip out to a local Butterfly house so that we could try and get closer to these beautiful specimens:-

Postman

Swallow Tail

Owl Butterfly

A Blue something...(Sorry)

Glass Wing

Largest Moth in the World 10 inch wings

and this was a small one.

(Hercules Moth)

But rather than captive Moths and Butterflies i actually got some pictures as I walked around so lets see what you think...

Small Heath

Gatekeeper

Red Admiral

Common Emerald

Silver Y

Possible Dark Arches...

Violet Ground Beetle

Well I hoped that you enjoyed my blog, please feel free to leave any comments,

Thanks Always Lee Harrison.

Holiday Continued...Mammals...

So the second round of the holidays, the mammals supposedly but I'm going to through in 1 bird picture that I forgot...

Swallows

Whilst I was there I had a couple of gorgeous surprises which I will never forget...

First night that we had arrived a tenby, just settling down after a 6 and a half hour straight driving and Charlotte reluctantly dragged me out for a walk "I wasn't impressed" but I prevailed and my mood was soon changed.


We headed up to Alan's point, only a two minuet walk but an iconic landmark to our family, as we sat there over looking Alan's point, i soon noticed 2 fox's sat at the far end of the field in front of us, so I decided to sneak along the side of the field and try to get closer to them. Eventually I reached the bottom of the field, so I decided to climb up a tree to reach a small banking, once I had climbed on top I was treated to one of my most rememberable sights that I've ever seen, sitting no more that 15 metres was a beautiful Dog Fox, it just stood there watching me whilst I grabbed my camera off Charlotte and took a few shots, I looked up and just behind the nearest one were 2 more, just relaxing in the foxgloves. an amazing moment.

Red Fox

Four days later I decided to returned to the foxes and try to get some more pic as I was still amazed by the earlier night, as I approached I saw the Vixen just relaxing maybe even sleeping in front of the den (show to the right on the above Pic.) but once I had got closer she had all descended to the dark depths of the den, so I decided to stand far back to just watch and appreciate. As I Was sat there , I noticed all the rabbited started to act peculiar when all of a sudden a Badger popped out of the bushes just to the right of me, no more than 30 metres into the field (I couldn't believe my luck)

Badger

Not an amazing picture my "God" I was so happy (apologies for the blasphemy) but it was amazing.

During the holiday, we were also very luck to come into close contact with Gray Seals and Bottle Nosed Dolphins, both amazing spectacles... See what you think:-

Bottle Nosed Dolphins

Grey Seal

Anyway I hope that you enjoyed this blog and that you will tune in for the next one.

Thanks always Lee Harrison.

I'm back continued...

Well as I couldn't fit all my lables on one post, I've had to over run onto two... I hope you like these just as much...

Sunsets

House Sparrow

Pied Wagtail

Rook

Jackdaw

Peregrine Falcon

Buzzard

Red Kite

Herring gull

Lesser Black Backed gull

Well thansk for stopping by and please keep checking in for my other holidat posts,

Thanks always Lee Harrison

I'm Back...

Well it's been a while but I'm back, i've just arrived back from wales where I have been on many nature watching walks, as I've taken so many pictures, I will be uploading them in different blogs, I hope that you like them...

kittiwakes

Fulmar

Chough

Gannet
Puffin

Razorbills


Guillemot

Well this is the summarised Bird gallery of my holiday, rather surprisingly I only went out birding 3 maybe 4 times during the 2 weeks, most of the pictures that I took were taken just wandering around the local areas and towns.

South Wales.... a place I'd highly recommend for an easy holiday of Birding/ general nature watching, Walking, leisure, and there's plenty of small shopping towns the keep the misses amused or even me when she dragged me out... Seriously it's a beautiful area of the country and anyone who's never been there should see it.

Anyway, sorry for the long break but I hope you like what your seeing.

Thanks always Lee Harrison.