trip I went on yesterday and other trips(not day trips)

this week so far iv been on a couple of trips but mainly places with streams,  ponds  or woodland. 

one of my favourite places to go is probably one most dont tend to go to unless going to a funeral or for personal reasons but me and my family go for walks 

the dogs like the graveyard nearby in Gloucestershire so mum and dad take a few of them for a walk there and let me take take pictures 

for Mum and dad its more about more than just the dogs but a nice place to go for a walk aswell its usualy portrayed a for dark themes and  scenes in media but  they can also  be very positive and enjoyable places and places for happy memorys. Graveyards are a natural habitat themselfs just like any other habitat. the only differance is  that people built  an important place on the grassland and due to the importance of graves to many people also bult graves giving it the name graveyard but they are also natural habitats aswell. 

  nature does its thing. it helps decompose decaying organic matter and exstracts nutrients and reproduces for survival thanks to different species of lichens and fungi both on graves and across the ground. Wildflowers grow and add colour they also have  nectar for pollinating insects and invertebrates. they are a place where scavengers gulls and the crow family can look for food like invertebrates and other things that are part of there varied  diet and places with trees or shrubs for thrushes, finches etc and other birds to hide from predators, mate and breed and   places for there favourate food - worms and even fruit like berrys during the cold months.  they are home to squirrels and various other species of wildlife too and this is why I go and take pictures 

  • Hi Zo. Beautiful pictures, they're amazing. Second what Take5 said, your pictures always bring a smile to my face, so thank you for that. Look forward to seeing more in the future!

  • Hi Zo

    Great pictures and thanks for sharing them. Just wanted to say I think your posts are brilliant and I’m sure I’m not alone when I say they really cheer me up. 
    You have a skill in photography but also have the ability to make others feel good. 

    Take care

  • Wednesday 30th October -I went to the Orchard today  with Mum and Dad 

    Corn Marigold

    Glebionis Segetum

    Cornflower

    Poppys

  • yew. pumpkin is the last photo that one would of been by a person.  i hadnt labeled them just yet i thought i would send it first to get them sent. yew  red rather than orange but can look orangey depending on light and angle and things. on the tree and hedge themselfs they were more red rather than orange. the white balls are snowberry 

  • I really like the two orange ones. I've grown to like orange as a colour recently.

    What are the white balls on the plant?

  • my first proper photographing trip iv been taking a breack from taking photos cause iv gone on lots of holidays for those who would life to see them there is a thread for those.  while im waiting for a coment to become visable again for everyone about an update i did. it was there for less than 5 minutes.

     iv decided to do my day trip thread in the meantime cause iv not long come back.  there is thread for that sepcificaly 

    lichen

    fungi

    yew

    stream

    gulls

    Bumblebee on ivy flower

    snowberry

  • this is the bird  photos from after the trip.  I did some birdwatching out the window. 

  • I forgot to add these 

    Mum and Dad put a bowl out for them to drink out of. 

    Magpie 

     

    Blackbird- brown blackbirds are females or juviniles while the familer completely black with yellowish orange 

    beak are males 

    this one is a very good example of a Juvenile. it is growing its adult feathers which is why half of him is black and 

    the other half is brown 

    this one is a great tit -scientific name Parus Major   are identifiable by there black hood, white cheaks yellow tummy with a black bib 

    aswell as there call that sounds like a squaky toy.  unforunatly this one has avian pox which creates tumor like heads which is what the inflated thing is on it is and theres more ocurances of it in the Great tit-  parus major  during the late summer months 

    Juvenile Blackbird 

  • thanks. yes its a ruddy darter

  • I found it, but it is still from the front, but it has the full view.

    I've not reduced the picture in size, so maybe the legs will help.

    I'm out for the day soon, so I may not get a chance to reply for a while.

    I can't believe that I said butterfly when you had only just told me! Oops! There was plane (biplane) from the 1930s called a Tiger Moth.

    A Tiger Moth found with Google

  • one thing I also  meant to add in the comment  for the dragonfly from what I can see at the angle  I have so far its likely to be a ruddy darter. one of the distinguishing features that can help distinguish the common red darter from the ruddy darter is that the common red darter  has a cream or yellow stripe on the legs whereas the ruddy darter has all black legs but im not sure if they might be hidden in the photo or not but it might not be. theres also a few other features that point to the possibility of it being ruddy darter but other identification features like the segmonts on the back of the tail can also help with identification so shots from the side and behind can be helpful and can even help seperate similar species when it comes to dragonflys same with damselflys aswell. shots from the front are also helpful aswell not just the side or the back but if you only manage to get the back or side which can happen alot that can still help with identification. so if you have a picture from the back on the pc that would be really helpful and I cant wait to see it when you post it today 

  • it sure is. there is also alot of concern by people in general as in by and for  people who arnt farmers about there decline aswell cause its such a cause for concern since they pollinate plants that  produce food for people to harvest ready to eat 

  • thats ok. the moth is a moth not a butterfly. some moths are colourful rather than plain while others developed to survive useing camaflage

    most butterflys are colourful which is why colourful moths can be mistakened for butterflys some even use both colour and camaflage rather than just color this is the case for moths. some like moths in fact are very good mimics for instsnce theres one called thr brimstone Butterfly whos wings mimics leafs so much so it can be mistakened for a leaf. as for moths alot if them evolved for camafage some species  others evolved to stand out like the Cinabar moth for example and the scarlet tiger is one of those moths 

  • Thanks. I'm glad that I have both the caterpillar and the butterfly. I didn't know. I may have the back of the dragonfly on my PC. I will try and look tomorrow.

  • the top species is called the scarlet Tiger moth and the caterpillar at the bottom  is Scarlet tiger moth caterpillar  the scarlet tigers distribution is  very local in other words it has a localised distribution- it is mostly common to  south  and south west of england and wales and has isolated populations in Kent aswell. 

    the photo in the middle is a dragonfly. dragonflys have large eyes that face upwards whereas damselfys dont. it  is one of the main ways of telling between the two. not the only way but one of the big identification clues 

    it is a red darter but I cant be certain of the species of red darter dragonfly cause I cant see the back of its tail or the behind aswell and that can help with identification aswell but there are different species of red darter. 2 of the most common species of red darter in the uk though  is the common red darter and the ruddy darter 

  • The lack of pollinators is a concern, to many UK Farmers. Their livelihoods depend on pollinators.

    Plus, the trees in built-up areas reduce the temperature in summer to a more tolerable level.

  • I took these last year. Do you know what they are? I have no idea, but was lucky to take the pictures.

  • heres 2 that I saw in 2022. not at this same location but somewhere else to use as an example 

    both of these are ladybeetle larvae like the one I saw at the graveyard today 

     this is the next  stage. pupae. 

    if you see one of these its a ladybeetle in one of the 

    stages in the ladybeetle cycle like the larvae. except this stage comes after the larvae stage 

    this is the stage before it turns into a ladybeetle 

      

  • the ladybeetles life cycle goes like this first ladybeetles lay eggs

    then the next stage is a larvae where they go through different stages of development called instars  then the stage after that is pupae after that stage its adult.