A Longtail Tufty Black Magpie...

Some rather 'scruffy' Longtail Tits (in molt) - Does my bum look big in this?

 

The Male Tufted Duck

 

and Female.

Blackbird study

Maggie May

Green Woody

 A chance encouner on the lawn!

Another LBF First: Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris

It has taken me four years to find one of these beauties at Longbeach Farm, but when it showed itself, it wasn't at all shy!  I first saw it on an ash tree in the woods, but I had my macro lens on the camera but I was happy to have got a couple of distant pictures; I quickly walked back to the house to get the 'big lens' and luckily the bird was still willing to be photpgraphed when I returned, these are some of the better pictures taken. The bird freely moved from oak to oak, picking out the insects as it hunted up the trunks and along branches, often hanging completey upside down. 

Now I need to find a Nuthatch which is also on my wish list and as yet remains elusive!

More Macro Mini beasts. - Click and zoom for detail.

Peacock Butterfly Caterpillar & White Lipped Snail

... and egg case on bottom right of leaf.

Soldier Fly Broad Centurion - Chloromyia formosa

Wild Carrot

Common/Ruddy  Darter

Blue Azure Damselfly

Meadow Brown

Lovely Ladybird

Bits 'n bobs Macro 105mm Lens

 Grass in detail - Click for Macro detail

Plantain 

Field bindweed

Corn Marigold

Fly on spruce/conifer

Goats beard Seed head - Detail

 2 more 'blue magic' at close range

Perforated St Johns Wort

Time to focus on the smaller things in life - Macro Lens gets an outing today (1)

Large Skipper Butterfly - Click images and zoom drag for extreme close ups

Common Blue feeding on Black Medic plant

Knot Grass Moth Caterpillar on Thistle leaf.

Hoverfly in buttercup

Straw GrassMoth  Best Guess! - Agriphila straminella

Green Shield Bug - Click for extreme detail

Six-Spot Burnet