A few days ago i saw these birds on the river on my way home, looked them up in my bird book to discover they are Little Grebes, so today i went down the river the get some photos.

Butterflies

I have decided to make a list of all the butterflies (and moths) I have seen/photographed in the last 2 years:

 Aglais urticae
Small Tortioseshell

Anartia amathea 

Antheraea Pernyi
Chinese Oak Silkmoth

Attacus atlas
Atlas Moth

Battus polydamus
Gold Rim Swallowtail

Cethosia biblis
Lacewing

Cethosia biblis

Lacewing

Danaus Plexippus
Monarch

Dryas Julia
Flame

Greta oto
Glasswing/Clearwing

Heliconius charitonius
Zebra longwing

Heliconius doris

Heliconius ismenius
Ismenius Longwing

Heliconius melpomene
Postman

Heliconius melpomene

Postman

Hypolimnas antevorta

Hypolimnas Misispus

The Mimic

Idea leuconoe

Tree Nymph

Inachis io

Peacock

Kallima paralekta

Indian Leaf

Morpho Peleides

Blue Morpho

Neptis hylas

Sailor

Pachliopta kotzebuea

Papilio demoleus

Lime/Citrus Swallowtail

Papilio polytes 

Common Mormon

Papilio rumanzovia

Scarlet Swallowtail

Papilio thoas

Thoas Swallowtail

Parthenos sylvia

The Clipper

Precis atlites

Grey Pansy

Precis iphita

I believe most of these names to be accurate but some butterflies are trickier then others to identify. 

The places I have taken these photos are: Buckfast Butterflies and Otters, Studley Grange Butterfly world, New Forest Wildlife park, Marwell Zoo and my mothers allotment.

Young Robin

Whilst out feeding the rabbits i heard  a familiar bird call from the silver birch trees, went to investigate and found a juvenile robin, it wasn't disturbed by me, more curious so i ran and got my camera and thankfully it stayed long enough for me to snap some pictures

Very pleased to see this chap in my garden. The day before I had spotted a male and female Chaffinch and my mother has seen fledgling long-tailed tits!

Ducklings

Went out for a little walk with my camera along the river and took a few snaps of some cute ducklings!

 Here's one of them

Also took some photos of swans for references.

Allotment

Went to my mother's allotment last week and it was a lovely sunny day and saw many Swifts, Swallows, and Linnets. Normally see the Kestrel but didn't this time, instead we saw a Sparrowhawk:

Also saw a Peacock butterfly

Danebury Ring

I visited Danebury Ring last week, on a nice sunny day and saw quite a bit of wildlife though not much of it sat still for photos.

Dingy Skipper

Grizzled Skipper













Yellowhammer

Saw a Common Lizard, a Kestrel, lots of bunnies, and a Stoat! and i even managed to have a sit and down and do some drawing.



Me!

New Forest

On Wednesday my mother and I went for a walk in the New Forest and within 5 mins of getting there we spotted a Common Lizard!

In all the times i have been to the new forest i have never seen one before! by the end of the walk we had seen over 10!

Another one, this one was greenish.

Heard a Green Woodpecker but didnt manage to spot it, saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming on a tree right above us!

When we stopped for lunch a Common Buzzard flew really low above us and i managed to get some good photos of it!

and then the last bird we spotted was a Nuthatch, well we heard it before we saw it.