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Frank & Polly
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I don't do politics & anybody who does & follows me will be blocked Nature loving dog owner who takes photos of stuff we see along our way based mainly in the Forest of Dean but can be found on Portland Dorset and the Isle of Mull Polly is my dog
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Thankyou, It's what I thought but wasn't certain enough to call it
From the Isle of Mull, brilliant wildlife seen, but can someone identify the caterpillar for me please
Juvenile Crossbill in the #ForestofDean recently
Nice to see 2 Adders in the #ForestofDean this morning... this one photographed at distance with imaged cropped and the snake left to bask in peace
#snake
Purple Hairstreak flutterby
Only the second I've knowingly seen and bizarrely within 20mtrs of where I saw my other !
#ForestofDean
Stunning afternoon at Symonds Yat Rock watching these young Peregrines tallon grappling
Humming Bird Hawk moth feeding on Red Valerian at Symonds Yat Rock today
One of at least 3 different ones whizzing around
Highlight of an unplanned trip to a Dorset Heath yesterday was 2 female Sand Lizards
After Forestry England #ForestofDean scraped clean my best area of Broad-leaved helleborine with no plants showing there yet this year.... it was nice to discover 7 spikes in a new to me location this morning
Grasshopper Warbler in the #ForestofDean this morning
#Glosbirds
I don't as a rule twitch birds... preferring to visit spots I know to see what's there and if there's an unusual bird, that's a bonus...
But with 4 relatively long staying Dotteral an hour from home. I thought I ought to visit them....
Definitely not disappointed
I think we passed each other this morning
Nightjar churring at a traditional Forest of Dean site at 20.55 this evening
Woodcock over as well
#Glosbirds
Dark Edged Beefly and Rose Chafer in the Wye Valley this morning....
Happy to be corrected though
Seems a little early but my first Cinnabar Moth of the year
Coleford, Gloucestershire
Exhibitors arriving for the Coleford Carnival of Transport......
Bit grey and damp, but for now, at least it's not raining...
Here's hoping it's a successful day for stall holders, exhibitors, local traders and the organisers
** parking not paving
2 m Pied Fly disputing a hole near the CTH paving area
Gropper reeling between the Crem and CTH
Wood Warbler briefly calling in mixed woodland (1st heard 2 days ago) on my 5 mile wander with Polly this morning
#GlosBirds
Heard from CTH but distantly to the north Cuckoo calling at 07.49am today #Glosbirds
Not a bad morning's wander in the #ForestofDean
Fallow Buck
Fallow Does with last years fawns
Wild Boar
Male Crossbill
Many many years ago possibly mid 1990's I had four Egyptian Geese in the fields near the barn between Huntsham Bridge and Symonds Yat East....
Out if interest do you know about the small heronry below the rock just in Herefordshire apparently certainly new to me and others (at least 3 nests)
Easily my best sighting and photo of the year so far
Weasel in the #ForestofDean this morning
Shush, don't move the paparazzi are out again
Roe bucks in the #ForestofDean
As part of the redevelopment of the of Coleford. This is the chosen design of the new clock tower.
There will be numbers incorporated into the paved areas & the shadow cast by the tower will show the time.
The town needs to be closed twice a year overnight to move the numbers forwards / backwards