Folks may appreciate this Southern Purple Mint Moth. This is a new species for me and what a stunning one. #nature #insects #moth #wildlifephotography #eveningwalk #photo
Folks may appreciate this Southern Purple Mint Moth. This is a new species for me and what a stunning one. #nature #insects #moth #wildlifephotography #eveningwalk #photo
23/05/2025 - Evening walk after work. Start of the weekend. It's always nice to look for the little things on the way round. Young gooseberries starting to grow next to a lamp post on rough ground next to a busy road. There's nice things to see everywhere when I take life slow. Have a nice weekend everyone 😃
#Mondog watching the world go by.. 🚜🚵🚗
This week’s midweek walk is in Tuesday, all welcome join us!
https://www.metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
#ramblersuk #walking #londonwalks #wappinglondon #themonument #eveningwalk
Really nice walk after the rain.. the leaves are still fresh and new, softly glowing.
I know the English word for " earthy smell after rain" is #petrichor, from Ancient Greek.
But what about the "vibrant colours, soft lighting, extra-loud birdsong"?
Maybe another language has one for this phenomenon? (Looking at you, German!)
12/05/2025 - Resident Weevil
Evening walk to the coffee shop. The weather was nice again today so we sat outside with our brews. A brown leaf weevil took up residence on my trouser leg. The busy bug is tiny, about 5mm. It seemed happy enough there for a while.
10/05/2025 - Trig to trig walk on Bennachie this evening. We hadn't planned to visit both trigpoints but the weather was good and with the twilight sky starting to darken I felt a need to see some stars. A good walk, quiet on the hill. The big moon kept us company all night. Got home about 3am.
09/05/2025 - After a trip to the shop to buy new shoes (I hate shoe shopping), we headed for the hills to enjoy the sunshine. A sunny walk round and up Tap o' Noth in Aberdeenshire. The weather was so nice I had my summer hat on. The wild flowers were magic and good birds today. Saw our first cuckoo this year. Top bees and butterflies. Spot of the day was probably a green hairstreak butterfly. We had tea on top and the sun set before we got down. Great day/evening out.
07/05/2025 - Things we saw on our evening walk after work. Round and over the hill. A lovely small copper butterfly and the wonderful footballer hoverfly
06/05/2025 - Evening walk after work. The clock struck 5 and it was time for wild flowers. It's such an exciting time of year. I love all the little flowers hiding away in the grass by the side of the roads. I really should have my tea first before going out, I was late getting home again and the belly was rumbling.
A few snaps of some of the little things I saw today. I think the IDs are good.
Charlock
Common Field-speedwell
Smith's Pepperwort
Germander Speedwell
05/05/2025 Flowers and bees on our evening walk after work today along the quiet roads.
Silverweed - The first few flowers are starting to show.
Broom - In amongst a bank of broom, this one stood out. I'm thinking an escaped cultivated one (Firefly?)
A couple of lovely bees on lime tree leaves, Marsham’s nomad bee and Early mining bee I think. I must have spent a good half hour just watching them doing busy bee stuff. Pretty magic.
Silent Sunday
#deer #wildlife #canada #silentsunday #eveningwalk #getoutside #photooftheday
From my #eveningwalk #naturephotography
From tonight’s walk. #traintracks #eveningwalk
28/04/2025 - Evening walk round and over the hill. We took tea with us and sat by the quiet road for a couple of hours, just relaxing. A nice way to start the week. We've done this walk hundreds of times but there's always something new to see. Today's lovely surprise was finding one of my favourite flowers, Bitter-vetch. First time I've found these on a walk from the house. Twilight on the way back. A badger ran across the track just in front of us, a magic moment.
23/04/2025 - Evening walk after work. We stopped for a coffee, sat outside and let the day slip away into evening. I'm not feeling that happy at the moment. Everything seems busy in my head. It will pass, just got to take things slow.