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Bluebells at Badbury

Went for a walk around the National Trust site at Badbury Clumps yesterday.
Was pleasantly surprised to see the Bluebells were out.

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Too Lips...



From Hendy...

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Common snapping turtle

This guy was hanging out on the trail this morning in my local Preserve. The carapace was 10-12".






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More Lizards

Some Common Lizards from a little over a week ago. It was a coolish day with sunny intervals so I was happy to see some of these out. They weren't very...
 

Treecreeper High Up

A Treecreeper high up in an extremely tall tree. Not the ideal setting to photograph one but I was very pleased to see it as they have been elusive recently....
 

Red Dead-Nettle in flower

The flowers are tiny.


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Ashy or Lancet Clubtail Dragonfly

I found this Dragonfly a few days ago in Tanglewood Park, Clemmons, NC.

iNaturalist identifies it as either an Ashy or Lancet Clubtail. After...
 

Experiment using Clingfilm

Not sure where to post this but seing as how its a flower I have put it here.

I stretched some cling film over a roll of tape and placed...
 

2017 sunset

Been raiding my archives, and found this sunset from December 2017 taken on my way home near Chiselhampton. E-M1 with Pana 12-35mm f2.8. Raws edit well...
 

Aaaa, or Baaa.....



Spring is a beautiful creative time...

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long-jawed orb-weaver spider from the Tetragnatha genus.

Google says this is long-jawed orb-weaver spider from the Tetragnatha genus.​ From the pictures they show it does look like it is.

Can...
 

Dunnock

I now know who is "white washing" the garden sign....
 

Something different

HHHR on a very windy day ...
 

Silverstone GT3 test day

Me and Myles my youngest son went to Silverstone today, I must say the EM1-X behaved flawlessly and achieves great image quality

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