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Hawaiian sunset :) #photography

In the foreground is the dark sea with silhouettes of surfers on their boards, the sun is just visible on the horizon near a sailboat. The sky is different shades of bright oranges

High tide marker, Leigh on Sea, UK #photography #coast #estuary

A pole with a green lampshade-like top is set to the right of the photo, against a blue sky with some fluffy clouds

More herring gulls from Whitstable, UK. Lots of flapping about, landing, taking off and landing again. Free seaside entertainment and not a chip stolen! #wildlife #nature #birds #photography

Two herring gulls with brown plumage; one is floating on the water, watching the other one come in to land, wings outstretched

A herring gull is coming in to land on the water, wings outstretched

Herring gull, Whitstable, Kent, UK. Considered to be the bane of the English seaside but I quite like them - intelligent, adaptable birds #nature #photography #birds

A large white bird with grey wings sits on a post in the foreground. The posts extend up, with a rocky beach to the side. More birds can be seen in the background

Bird reserves are also great for plants! A few from @RSPB Rainham Marshes - common teasel, wild carrot flower head, composite of some sort (forgot to look at the leaves!) and bulrush that’s exploded #nature #botany #Macrophotography

A spiky flower head gone to seed glowing against a blurred green background

A large head of small buds about to flower all curled up into a ball

A small flower in the centre of the image, with small white petals and a yellow centre

A bulrush seed head that’s exploded, looking like a wad of dirty cotton against a bright blue sky

Male and female ruddy darters. Gorgeous dragonflies that love to pose :) These two were seen (amongst loads of other dragonflies and damselflies) at @RSPB Rainham marshes this weekend #odonata #nature #invertebrates

A very red dragonfly, with red eyes and body, clear wings with 4 red dots, perches on a branch, with blurred green vegetation background

Close up of the same dragonfly, with his red and brown eyes, and red and black thorax

A side on photo of a female ruddy darter. She is more yellow with some red on her abdomen; her eyes are brown and blue. She is also perched on a branch

Brunch prep was interrupted by this gorgeous beast. Vulpes Vulpes, red fox, London #urbanwildlifephotography #nature #foxes

Red fox lying down, tail curled up against his body, head resting on his front paws; Ivy in the background

Red fox walking away, pausing for a second to look behind him, staring straight at the camera

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Beautiful male Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea) just hanging out :) Becoming more common across England and Scotland #invertebrates #urbanwildlife #nature

A dragonfly hanging onto some green blackberries. It has four large wings to the side, large eyes, green and black markings on its thorax and blue and black markings on its abdomen

Same dragonfly as before, but close up of its eyes and thorax

Phun with phytos!

A few thousand years ago, there was a little flowering plant near a small tell site in Iraq, and it left this really cool clue behind - evidence that it once lived :)) This is a multi-branched trichome phytolith, basically hair cells. This one may come from the Asteraceae (daisy) family (maybe maybe, still researching this one!), so one of some 32,000+ species 😳

Stacked image; 400x magnification #microfossils #science #archaeology

A microscopic image of conjoined plant cells, with a central line of several cells and four tentacle like appendages spanning out from the centre

@alexhaist that’s what mums do best :))) and yeah, she’s a fab kid and a great invert hunting partner

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@alexhaist oh dear! I hope your mum saw the positive side of that after the initial shock! My daughter has been my ‘bug spotter’ (that includes mammals, reptiles, birds… 🤣) for years (she’s 14 now) - she is most excellent! She found this in the long grass and was determined to get it (gently of course) so I could photograph it. It was quite the runner 🤣

@markus_quandt indeed there is! Well spotted! The one in the bushes was the surprise one for me :)))

How many goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis) can you spot? You may have to tap/click for the whole image. Taken today in London #urbanwildlife #nature #birds

An image taken in a garden centre, of two bird feeders. There are four goldfinches, with white abdomens, brown wings with yellow and black, and red and black heads, sitting around the feeders. One is hidden. There is another finch in the bushes below

Some mums get flowers from their kids. I get spiders 🤣🤣😍 Immature Tibellus sp found in the long grass by the kiddo today (London) #spiders #nature #urbanwildlife #macro

A creamy coloured spider, with a long abdomen, stretched out on top of a plastic pot. It has a broad dark brown stripe running down its head and abdomen

Misumena vatia (flower crab spider) with not just one, but two flies! That’s just greedy 🤣🤣🤣 #urbanwildlife #spiders #macrophotography

A white spider is sitting on a green leaf. Its arms are outstretched and it’s holding on to two black flies with its palps

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This is the lovely & rather large hoverfly, Volucella inflata. June/July are the peak months for adults to fly about, nectaring on bramble flowers, etc. They are found mainly in woodlands with mature trees, in SE England (although spreading slowly north). This was found in woodlands in London #insects #pollinators #nature #Macrophotography

A large hoverfly, black with orange markings on its abdomen and an orange thorax and head. It is nectaring on a bramble flower, with a green blackberry in the background

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Some good news to start the day.

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