Lilac-breasted Roller
Robin is a committed wildlife photographer with an avid interest in all disciplines of wildlife. We are delighted that he has agreed to showcase his photographic experiences on this site which will include all aspects of wildlife including his love of insects and other small beasts!
E & N
Hi
I'm Robin Gossage and knocking on 18 3/4yrs (and a bit more)!
Since the advent of digital I've tried to photograph wildlife.
Both my wife Wendy and I have been good friends with Eleanor and Neil for more years than I can remember, and we have been fortunate to have traveled with them to many wildlife destinations.
I would like to thank them for allowing me a 'spot on their blog' (although I thought the charge was rather extortionate!).
Thank You!
Also I would like to thank Wendy for being so patient and finding lots of stuff for me to photograph.
Anyways up here are some pictures that may appeal and be interesting I hope.
Lastly thanks to the usual crowd of lads. They know who they are!
Cheers Robin.
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Great Crested Grebes
Cormorant
Curlew
Mute Swans
Curlew
Rosechafers
Otters
Market Harborough
Great Northern Diver
Darter sp
Clubtail Dragonfly sp
Dancer sp
Dropwing sp
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Smew
Pochard
Goldcrest
House Spider!
Purple Reed Beetle
Lesser Stag Beetle
Brown Hawker
Wasp Spider
Pied Flycatcher
Common Lizard
Small Copper
Ruby-tailed Wasp
Jackdaw
Common Blue butterfly
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| Chiffchaff. |
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| Cormorant. |
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| Carrion Crow. |
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| Grey Wagtail. |
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| Shoveler. |
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| Starling. |
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| Common Tern. |
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| Red Grouse. |
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| What's this ear then? |
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| Mountain Hare. |
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| Black-tailed Godwit. |
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| Long-tailed Tit. |
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| Ring-necked Parakeet. |
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| Red Squirrel. |
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| Green Woodpecker. |
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| Wood Sandpiper. |
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| Great Crested Grebes. |
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| Cormorants. |
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| Jumping Spider. |
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| Eurasian Bittern. |
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| Pine Hawkmoth. |
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| Slavonian Grebe. |
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| Thick-headed Fly |
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| Corizus hyoscyami |
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| Emperor dragonfly larva |
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| Purple Emperor. |
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| White Admiral. |
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| Oystercatcher. |
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| Common Tern. |
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| Bittern. |
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| Mountain Hare. |
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| Grey Heron. |
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| Red Grouse. |
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| Brown Bear. |
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| Little Egret. |
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| Great White Egret. |
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| Gadwall. |
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| Brown Hare. |
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| Mountain Hare. |
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| Ruff. |
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| Bearded Tit. |
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| Bitterns. |
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| Little Egret. |
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| Grey Heron. |
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| Common Snipe. |
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| Great Crested Grebes. |
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| Little Grebe. |
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| Sparrowhawk. |
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| Common Frog. |
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| Long-tailed Tit. |
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| Siskin. |
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| Red Squirrel. |
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| Roe Deer. |
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| Male Lesser Redpoll. |
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| Drake Red-crested Pochard. |
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| Male Brambling. |
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| Meadow Pipits. |
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| Meadow Pipit. |
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| Goldcrest. |
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| Common Sandpiper. |
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| Common Tern. |
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| Green Sandpiper. |
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| bush-cricket sp |
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| Oystercatcher. |
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| Black Terns. |
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| Greenshank. |
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| Great White Egret. |
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| Drake Goldeneye. |
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| Goldfinch. |
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| Green Sandpiper. |
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| Spring lambs! |
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| Yellowhammers. |
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| High-spirited Great Crested Grebes! |
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| Sun-bathing Long-tailed Tit. |
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| Common Gulls. |
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| Red-necked Grebe. |
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| Drake Red-crested Pochards. |
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| Redshank. |
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| Teal. |
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| Short-eared Owl |
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| Bluethroat |
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| Ant- Lion sp South Africa |
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| Red Kite |
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| Kestrel |
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| Drake Shoveler. |
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| Bullfinch |
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| Goldeneye. |
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| Great White Egret. |
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| Green Woodpecker. |
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| Red Fox. |
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| Short-eared Owl. |
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| Waxwings |
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| Redwing |
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| Short-eared Owl |
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| Smew at Pitsford Reservoir |
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| Muntjac |
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| Pintail |
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| Pheasants |
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| Pied Wagtail |
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| Juvenile Peregrine at Summer Leys |
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| Sparrowhawk Kingsthorpe garden... |
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| Wheatear. |
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| Kingfisher with Pike prey. |
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| Phasia hemiptera |
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| Chrysis ignita |
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| Trichrysis cyanea |
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| Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp |
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| Death Watch Beetle |
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| Platystoma seminationis |
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| Small Yellow-legged Robber Fly |
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| Spear Thistle Lacebug |
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| Temminck's Stint |
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| Urophora stylat fly |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| Yellowhammer |
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| Stonechat |
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| Little Ringed Plover |
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| Long-tailed Tit |
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| Hobby |
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| Bee Orchid |
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| Bullfinch |
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| Confrontation between Grey Squirrel and Great Spotted Woodpecker! |
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| Crane Fly and Pseudo Scorpion |
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| Eyed Ladybird |
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| Brown Hare |
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| beetle sp |
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| Garganey |
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| Blackcap |
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| Whimbrel |
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| Lesser Whitethroat |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| Jay |
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| Kestrel |
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| Bearded Tit |
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| Little Ringed Plover |
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| Shoveler |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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| Cetti's Warbler |
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| Brown Hare |
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| Red-legged Partridge |
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| Reed Bunting |
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| Sandwich Tern |
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| Stonechat |
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| Linnet |
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| Meadow Pipit |
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| Whimbrel |
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| Wheatear |
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| Drake Wigeon |
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| Stonechat |
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| Shelduck |
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| Little Egret |
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| Little Grebe |
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| Kestrel |
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| Gadwall |
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| Common Buzzard |
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| Female Pochard |
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| Corizus Hyosami (bug) |
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| Robin |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Curlew |
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| Redshank |
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| Common Buzzard (and Carrion Crow) |
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| Egyptian Goose |
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| Goosanders |
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| Woodpigeon |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Coot |
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| Goosanders |
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| Peregrine |
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| Goosanders |
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| Red Fox |
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| Cormorant |
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| Kingfisher |
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| Hedgehog |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Drake Smew Pitsford Reservoir |
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| Stonechat |
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| Red Foxes |
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| Little Grebe |
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| Oystercatcher |
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| Pintail |
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| Redshank |
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| Teal |
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| Short-eared Owl |
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| Ruff |
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| Grey Plover |
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| Chinese Water Deer |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Hobby |
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| Water Rail |
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| Oedemera nobilis |
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| Phasia hemitera |
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| Picture-winged Fly |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary |
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| Slow-worm |
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| Vollucella inanis |
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| Vollucella zonaria |
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| Xanthogramma pedissequum |
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| Denticulate Leatherbug |
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| Hedychrum neimelia |
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| Hover-fly sp |
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| Sicus ferruugneus |
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| Four-banded Major |
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| Chalcid sp |
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| Deer Fly |
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| Black Dancer |
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| Canops sp |
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| Canops sp |
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| Corizus hyoscyami |
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| Grey Wagtail |
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| Nuthatch |
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| Chaffinch |
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| Clay-coloured Weevil |
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| Black and Yellow Longhorn |
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| Black-spotted Longhorn |
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| The charismatic Blue Tit! |
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| Corn Bunting |
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| Short-toed Eagle |
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| Woodlark |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| White-clouded Longhorn |
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| Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn |
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| Figwort Weevil |
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| Common Grammoptera |
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| Nut Weevil |
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| Red-shouldered Longhorn |
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| Tobacco Longhorn |
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| Variable Longhorn |
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| Great Bustard displaying |
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| Cardinal Beetle |
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| Cetti's Warbler |
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| Brown Hare |
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| Herring Gull with a sweet tooth! |
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| Dung Fly with prey |
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| Male Siskin |
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| Swallows |
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| Bee-eater |
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| Crested Tit |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Rock Pipit |
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| Peregrine Summer Leys |
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| Black-headed Gull Summer Leys |
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| aphid sp |
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| Barn Owl |
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| Coal Tit |
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| Crested Tit |
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| Common Crossbill |
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| Great Spotted Woodpecker |
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| Great Tit |
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| Red Grouse |
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| Robin |
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| Mountain Hare |
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| Red-necked Grebe Farmoor Reservoir 9th April 2015 |
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| Great Crested Grebes and thief! |
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| Mandarin Ducks |
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| Barn Owl |
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| Blackbird |
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| Nuthatch |
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| Great White Egret |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Rough-legged Buzzard |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Egyptian Goose |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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| Little Egret |
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| Dunnock |
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| Fly sp. Robin would dearly like to identify this little flying gem and any suggestions as to it's identity would be welcome. |
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| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
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| Drake Smew |
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| 'Redhead' Smew |
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| Reed Bunting |
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| Robin |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Drake Smew |
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| Wolf Spider |
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| Toads |
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| Great Tit |
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| Robin |
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| Muntjac |
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| Redwing |
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| Marsh Tit |
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| Muntjac |
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| Goosander |
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| Coal Tit |
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| Blue Tit |
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| Bullfinch |
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| Wren |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Siskin |
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| spider sp |
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| Whooper Swan |
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| Otters |
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| Bearded Tit |
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| Bullhead |
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| Crayfish |
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| Pied Flycatcher |
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| Sphaerophoria taeniata |
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| Syritta pipiens |
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| Vapourer Moth |
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| Red-necked Grebe |
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| Lapwing and Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Little Egret |
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| Pheasant |
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| Red Kite |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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| Jumping Spider |
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| Honey Bee |
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| Feathered Gothic |
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| Crucifer Shieldbug |
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| Common Lizard |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Araneus Quadratus |
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| Araneus Marmoeus |
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| Kingfisher |
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| Normada lathburiana |
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| Common Buzzard |
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| Corizus hyoscyami |
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| Wasp takes hover-fly in flight |
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| Flies mating - they're about 4mm long! |
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| Small Tortoiseshell |
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| Vollucella inanis |
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| Brown Hawker |
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| Brown Hare |
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| Thick-headed Fly |
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| Torymid sp |
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| Turnip Saw-fly |
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| Corizus hyoscyami |
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| Giant Willow Aphid |
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| Migrant Hawker |
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| Leafhopper |
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| False Black Widow |
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| Elephant Hawk-moth Caterpillar |
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| Common Green Colonel Soldier-fly |
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| Puss Moth Caterpillar |
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| Green Colonel Fly Odontomyla viridula |
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| Pentatoma rufipes |
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| Black-tailed Skimmer |
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| hoverfly sp |
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| Mating Bee-Flies |
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| Miris striatus |
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| Juvenile Moorhen |
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| Black-tailed Godwit |
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| Cercopis vulnerata Froghopper |
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| Eupelix cuspidata Leafhopper |
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| Horned Treehopper |
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| Mum knows best ! Adult female and duckling Eider |
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| Fulmar |
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| Gasteruption jaculator |
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| Kittiwake |
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| 'Bridled' Guillemot |
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| Dartford Warbler |
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| Puffin |
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| Marmalade Hover Fly |
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| Scorpion Fly |
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| Hover Fly vollucella pellucens |
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| Lapwing |
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| Leaf-cutter Bee |
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| Hoverfly sp |
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| Elephant Hawk-moth |
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| Black Hairstreak butterfly |
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| Buff Tip Moth |
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| Platystomos albinus |
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| Pyrochroa serracornis and Chernes cimcoides |
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| Rhinocerous Beetle |
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| Myathropa florea |
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| Green Tortoise Beetle and Woundwort Shield Bug |
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| Crab Spider sp |
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| Cream Spot Ladybird |
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| Drinker Moth |
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| Bee Orchid (and Common Blue Damselfly |
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| Common Grey Disco |
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| Common Groundhopper |
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| Banded Demoiselle |
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| Athous haemorrhoidalis |
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| Ruby-tailed Wasp |
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| Jewel Wasp |
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| Agapanthia villosoviridescens |
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| Swallow Prominent |
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| probable Torymus Nitens |
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| Tufted Duck |
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| Swallow |
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| probable Necrodes Littoralis |
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| Necrophorous Investigator |
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| Marsh Frog |
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| Catharis Fusca |
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| Crytorhynchus Lapathi |
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| probable Cychus Caraboides |
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| Oystercatcher |
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| Molorchus Minor |
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| Owl fly sp |
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| Rove Beetle Staphylinus Caesaeus |
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| Reed Beetle sp |
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| Reed Bunting |
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| Sloe Bug Dolycoris Baccarum |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
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| Strangalia Maculata |
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| Epeolus variegatus |
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| Four-spot Chaser |
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| Gadwall |
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| hoverfly sp |
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| ichneumon sp |
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| Ichneomon suspiciosus |
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| Juvenile Long-tailed Tits |
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| Poplar Hawk-moth |
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| Polydrusus sericus |
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| Bee Orchid |
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| Garden Chafer |
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| Green Silver-lines |
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| Grey Heron |
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| Pill Woodlouse |
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| Baccha Elongata |
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| Arge Rosea |
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| Bloody-nosed Beetle |
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| Young Tawny Owl |
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| Swift |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
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| Tegenaria Duellica with aphid |
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| Stoat with black Water Vole |
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| Larinoides Cornutus |
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| Eysarcoris Fabricii |
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| Four Spot Chaser transformation... |
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| Swallow |
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| Robin |
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| Whitethroat |
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| Redshank |
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| Sand Martin |
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| Wheatear Harrington Airfield |
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| Stoat |
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| Ring Ouzel Harrington Airfield |
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| Scaup |
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| Jumping Muntjac! |
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| Snow Bunting Daventry CP |
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| Plain Brown Lipped Banded Snail |
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| Silver Y Moth |
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| Fruit Fly |
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| Ichneumon Fly |
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| Adder |
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| Mandarin |
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| Blue Tit |
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| Coal Tit |
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| Nuthatch |
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| Red-necked Grebe |
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| Tufted Ducks and Goldeneye |
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| Goosander |
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| Great White Egret |
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| Mallard |
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| Wigeon |
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| Great Tit |
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| Great Crested Grebe |
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| Canada Goose |
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| Little Grebe |
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| Drake Goldeneye |
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| Drake Goosander |
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| Lapwing |
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| Drake Mallard |
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| Common Buzzard |
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Great Crested Grebes
Cormorant
Curlew
Mute Swans
Cormorant
Curlew
Rosechafers
Otters
Market Harborough
Great Northern Diver
Darter sp
Clubtail Dragonfly sp
Dancer sp
Dropwing sp
Red-backed Shrike
Great White Egret
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Smew
Pochard
Goldcrest
House Spider!
Purple Reed Beetle
Lesser Stag Beetle
Brown Hawker
Wasp Spider
Pied Flycatcher
Common Lizard
Small Copper
Ruby-tailed Wasp
Jackdaw
Common Blue butterfly
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Ruby Tiger
Swallow
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Yellowhammers
Wryneck
Wasp Spider with fly
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Absolutely no idea!
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| Whitethroat |
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| Turtle Dove |
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| Skylark |
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| Blackcap |
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| Eyelash fungi |
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| Meadow Pipit |
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| Golden-ringed Dragonfly |
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| Raft Spider |
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| Red-footed Falcon |
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| Nuthatch |
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| Harlequin Ladybird |
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| Otter |
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| Garden Warbler |
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| Peacock Butterfly caterpillar |
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| Purple Emperor |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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| Marsh Harrier |
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| Garganey Summer Leys |
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| Common Blue |
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| Otters! |
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| Stonechat in flight |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary |
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| High Brown Fritillary |
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| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary |
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| Wasp Spider |
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| Black Hairstreak |
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| Spider Hunter |
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| Lammergeier |
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| Green Tiger Beetle |
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| Red-legged Partridge |
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| Kestrel |
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| Ruby-tailed Wasp |
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| Goosander |
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| Assassin Bug |
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| Sand Wasp Ammaphila sabulosa |
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| Redwing |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Common Wasp |
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| Cockchafer |
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| Hornets fighting |
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| Sparrowhawk |
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| Now identified as Oyster Fungi |
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| Fieldfare |
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| Mistle Thrush |
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| Drake Goosander |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Common Gull |
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| Woodpigeon |
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| My friendly house spider! |
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Walrus
White-fronted Bee-eater
Eurasian Teal
spider sp 'ballooning'
Long-tailed Skua
Blue Fulmar
Little Auk
Burying Beetle
Polar Bear
What's in the Pitcher Plant?
Sycamore (moth)
Snow Bunting
Silver Y
Ruby Tiger
Puss Moth
Robin's Pin Cushion
Puss Moth
Puffball
Privet Hawk Moth
Pale Tussock
Pale Tussock
Namaqua Dove
Micrommatu Virescens
Jumping Spider
Horsefly sp!
Great Green Bush Cricket
Emperor Moth
Carabid beetle sp & dinner (slug)
Black and White Ruffed Lemur
Angle Shades
Crowned Hawk Eagle
Carmine Bee-eater
Peach Blossom
Bateleur and friend
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