Photos from a couple of trips to Rodley Nature Reserve one of the trips with a couple of members of the Bingley Camera Club wildlife group. The header image is of Mute Swan, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Mallard, and possibly a couple of Gadwall.
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The Birds
As usual there was a nice selection of birds at the reserve. Lapwing, Little Egret, Mallard, Gadwall, Swan and youngsters, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Robin (this is a juvenile just getting its red breast), Buzzard, and a lovely display by four Sparrowhawks, though I only managed to get two in the shot at the same time.
On these visits I didn’t here anyone shouting about rare visitors tucked away in the reeds.
Insects
Before deciding on the heading here I had to check that all these are insects. Dragonflies, bugs and butterflies are all under the Class Insecta.
So here we have Hoverfly, a Mirid Bug (Deraeocoris plant bug) and Honey Bee, all on Tansy flower heads. A Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) on fiddleneck (Phacelia tanacetifolia), a Gatekeeper butterfly, and then Common Blue Damselflies, Brown Hawker Dragonfly ovipositing, and finally a few photos of male and female Common Darter Dragonflies.
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