{"id":15305,"date":"2026-05-25T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:29:21","slug":"our-garden-23-24-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/our-garden-23-24-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Garden, 23 & 24 May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The warm weather certainly brings out the insects. These were all taken in, or from, our garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The header image is a silhouette of a Swift above our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are a few of the little things in our garden. Google did its best to convince me that the more purple of the Mint Moths is actually a Common Purple & Gold Moth Pyrausta purpuralis<\/em> but I’m having none of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We often see Holly Blue butterflies fly through our garden. This one I kept my eye on and it settled on some Holly and I was able to get its photo with my long lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the other photos in this section were taken with my macro lens with ring flash fitted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I watched a Wood Pigeon in our Elder tree and thought it was eating the very unripe Elderberries. On looking through my lens I could see that it was actually eating the leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having planes fly over and also having the Moon in the sky allowed me to have distant objects to focus on so that I had a better chance of seeing and focusing on the Swifts that I kept seeing high in the sky. As you can see, the sky was blue. No clouds and any vapour trails that formed soon faded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The images are published under the Creative Commons, BY-NC-SA license. Feel free to share them, edit them, but please keep my name in the credits. And if I have got the ID of anything wrong please let me know, I don’t consider myself an expert but I have write something. It is often a best guess and it would take up too much room to say It could be this, or it could be… or perhaps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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