Animals

A small cluster of animal pictures, including horse galloping!


Wasps' Nest
[22 Aug 2010]
One patch of the garden has been getting a lot of attention from wasps, as the appear to be collecting soil from our garden and carting it off ...
Dragonfly
[26 Jul 2010]
This beautiful dragonfly was resting on the underside of our trampoline, probably trying to work out where the pond had gone. (Pond has been ...
Baby Wrens
[03 Jul 2010]
We've had a nest of wrens in a home-made nesting box attached to the wall outside our kitchen, and buried inside a honeysuckle. There were around ...
Swift Nesting Box
[27 Jun 2010]
DIY Swift nesting box by Edward Mayer: Simple swift box at Londons-Swifts.org.uk. Use 12+mm exerior plywood, to build a 50x20x25cm box, topped ...
Strange orange-legged insect
[24 Jun 2010]
What is this insect? It was crawling around on the lawn, climbing over blades of grass.
Bumble Bee
[24 Jun 2010]
Here is a bumble bee feasting on a clover flower.
Baby Spiders
[24 Jun 2010]
These little beauties all hatched out on a water butt tap, in the warm June sunshine. Aren't they cute?
Honey Bees Mating
[09 Jun 2010]
These honey bees were at it for several minutes, buzzing loudly whilst mating on top of a water butt in our front garden.
Pet Mice
[04 May 2010]
Here are some pet mice belonging to our eight-year-old, Isabel.
I Like Turtles
[21 May 2008]

White Grub in Bacton Woods, Norfolk
[03 May 2008]
This is a largish white grub we saw on a rest break whilst cycling through Bacton Woods. It was around an inch and a half long.
Jerboa
[10 Dec 2007]
A researcher at the Zoological Society of London has captured footage of the exceedingly shy and endangered Jerboa, a tiny nocturnal mammal found ...
Mouse Lemur
[03 Oct 2007]
This is the world's smallest primate, with one able to fit in the palm of your hand. They hibernate in trees during the dry season, and when ...
Pretty Slug
[22 Sep 2007]
We don't usually photograph slugs, but this one was such a pretty specimen!
Baby Blackbird has Plummeted
[02 Jun 2006]
The nest has fallen out and two of the three baby blackbirds have died; here's the survivor a few days later, still being fed like crazy by his ...
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