More Otmoor Lizards

These babies were tiny, much smaller than they look ijn these pictures



Juvenile Common Lizards
two's company



and three's a crowd

Kingham 30th July

Peacocks in the garden when the sun shone this afternoon

Bernwood Forest

Silver washed Fritillary

Comma

Otmoor 29th July

Purple Hairstreak Otmoor courtesey of Paul Greenaway



Otmoor. 28th. July.

Common Lizard.

Common Lizard (imm.).

Two of a total of eight lizards seen this morning, in the purpose built habitat by the approach to the first screen.

Rare Micro Moth

I caught this Metalampra Italica this morning in my trap. It's only the second ever record for the Upper Thames Branch recording area, the first being on the 15th of this month. The first ever record in the UK was in 2003 so it's just starting to colonise from Italy, the only other location where it is found.

Metalampra Italica

Red-eyed Damsels at Radley GP

Plenty of action on Bullford Lake yesterday (24th July)

Otmoor. 24th July.

               
                                                         Car Park field.

Aston Rowant NNR, 22nd July

Two of the reserve's late summer butterfly species are now flying

Silver-spotted Skipper

Chalkhill Blie

Bernwood Forest

Fallow Deer Doe

Abingdon Hedgehog July

Please click the cog to view at 720p

One of two prickly fellas that arrive each night

outside our home for their Go-Cat biscuit fix.

Letcombe Bassett 19th July

...all these bugs!

It's time to get a bit more 'Disney Channel' with a couple of Roe Deer pics.

Black-tailed Skimmer at Farmoor

Several of these seen this afternoon around Shrike Meadow and the Thames path

Black-tailed Skimmer

Essex Skipper in north Oxford

If the diagnostic antennae are in focus, the rest might not be

Essex Skipper
Burgess Field Nature Park

Bernwood Forest 18th July

Muntjac

Silver Washed Fritillary with Comma in background

Purple Hairstreak

White Admirals

Otmoor. 16th. July.

                                                     
                                                       Four-Spotted Chaser.

South Oxfordshire 16th July

White Letter Hairstreak

Tale of the Tortoise and Hare-streak

The devious Gnome may have got there first, but everything comes to he who waits

White-letter Hairstreak, South Oxon site
(no Gnomes seen today)

White-letter Hairstreak

White-letter Hairstreak in South Oxon

More at Gnome's Birding Diary

Otmoor. 14th July.

Grass Snake, one of several to been seen in the car park field this morning.

Narrow-boarded Five spot Burnet Moth

 

Deer Fly

 

Thanks to Mr Wyatt and Bull for identifications

 

Burnwood 14th July a.m

2 Purple Emperor
3 Purple Hairstreak
White Admiral (several)

(per Keith & Shirley Clack)

Cothill Fen, 14th July

Small Red Damselfly

Kingham 13th July

Privet Hawk Moth

Hare....Otmoor.

Tree Bumblebee - Summertown

No blue tits this year.

Drone nest surveillance flights.

Bernwood Forest 12th July

His Imperial Majesty