This beautiful Heron was busy hunting/fishing in the River Glaslyn at Beddgelert. It moved from rock to rock searching in the small pools out of the main flow of the river.
At the same time it was keeping a very watchful eye on the Buzzard which was flying just overhead.
#Fishing #Heron #Beddgelert #NorthWales
Just one picture for today.
I get really excited when I find a heart in nature. They can appear in some really unexpected places, like this one. This is a very small succulent which was growing in a gap on a slate wall in Beddgelert. Although it is quite large in this picture in reality it is just a few milimetres across. It would have been so easy to miss. I am so glad I didn't.
#nature's hearts #succulent #Beddgelert #Macro photos
Having posted a selection of butterflies yesterday I decided to continue with a bug theme today.
As with the butterflies getting a good image of flying insects is a real challenge as they seldom stay still for more than a few seconds at a time as they are always so busily engaged in their search for food. So I am especially pleased with the third of today's pictures which is nice and sharp, and its wings look crystal clear.
In the fourth picture of a different honey bee you can see that it has extended its proboscis to feed on the nectar.
I don't know what the beetle in the fifth picture is, it was creeping on a stone at Gelert's Grave at Beddgelert near the River Glaslyn in North Wales. It looks almost prehistoric.
I was really excited about the last two images. This is the larva of a cream streaked ladybird. It had hitched ride on the window of my car and I had expected it to crawl away. But as you can see from the final picture it didn't, it hung on and metamorphosed into the adult bug. It held on for the whole journey to and from Wales even at speeds of XX MPH.
I am pleased to report that it has now completely hatched and the fully formed ladybird is now doing whatever ladybirds do...
