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Last year this little crab apple, Evereste, was a mass of white blossom. In this years faltering spring some blossom has already shriveled, some is open and the rest is yet to open. The main reason for planting it in an orchard is to attract pollinating insects who then go on to pollinate the...

Martin, some of our early plants have suffered from the generally cold conditions throughout April, apparently it's been the worst April for frosts in the last 60 years so plants like Alexanders, a member of the carrot family and introduced here by the Romans (I'm not sure if they extend as far...

Dog-violet Greater Stitchwort Lesser Celandine Primrose Ramsons Barrie

Calves in the yard - Collyton Farm - Sheepstor - Dartmoor Barrie

I'm taking a somewhat wider view of this subject. Avon Valley near Loddiswell - South Devon Barrie

Inquisitive calf Barrie

Below Shipley Tor and heading for Yalland - Dartmoor Barrie

Cooling Off - Dartmoor Barrie

Approaching Storm at Ditsworthy Warren House on Dartmoor This building was "tarted up"to act as the farmhouse where "Joey the Horse" was born in the Steven Spielberg adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel "Warhorse". Barrie

Belted Galloway Cattle at Glasscombe Corner on Dartmoor Barrie

For those with a connection to Switzerland. A Simmental Bull with the milking herd - Bowden Farm From day 21 of the first ever Single in (January). The lens was the 12mm Voigtlander LTM Ultra Wide-Heliar. Barrie

Time for some wild one's off the moor, they go rock climbing and all sorts up there. Barrie

Mist on the marsh Barrie

The Torbay All Weather Lifeboat (RNLB Alec and Christina Dykes) On a rescue mission Barrie

Rough Weather Barrie

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October was our fifth wettest on record, November is trying hard to beat it, thank goodness for an archive to trawl through and re-process some images. These date from February 2012. Barrie

Foxglove with Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8 mounted via a Metabones Speed Booster XL 0.64 Barrie

Red Campion With Micro-NIKKOR 55mm f/2.8 Barrie

Herb Robert (flower and seed pods) Germander Speedwell Wood Avens (also known as Herb Bennett) what is it with botanists, two very Different English names All images with Micro-NIKKOR 55mm lens and Metabones Speed Booster XL 0.64. All these flowers are no more than about 12-15mm...

In the meadow with Nikkor 20mm f/4 lens and Metabones Speed Booster XL0.64 Barrie

Yes, you've correctly identified the plants I was referring to, feathery like and sticking up. How sad that the story ends in the way it does, it's good to know that you have the best memories you can of your friend Ken, it is perhaps all we can hope for. Barrie

Hi Brent, not any comment on the photographs but on the other plant growing up between the lily pads. To me it looks very like something called Parrots Feather which is sold as an aquatic plant but turns out to be highly invasive and the sort of thing that can totally take over and smother the...

Early Purple Orchid (with LTM 75mm f/2.5 Voigtlander Color-Heliar Barrie

A few from recent posts on the April 2020 challenge. Ramsons Gorse Greater Stitchwort Dog Violet Dandelion Barrie

These are either Round-leaved Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia) or Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) photographed on Dartmoor, Devon, UK in 2014. The first shot shows a close up of the trap with the corpses of small flies the plant has ensnared. Sundew flower spike Barrie

I spent some considerable time over the summer attempting to photograph one of two crab spiders I'd found on umbellifer plants growing along the farm track outside my cottage. These are ambush hunters. It's the female I've photographed, she's about 10mm long. In the UK they have no common name...

Common Swift moth Hepialus lupulinus (male) Extension tubes used with this lens Crab Spider Misumena vatia with a prey item. This spider is about 10mm (0.4") long. Longhorn Beetles Rutpela maculata (mated pair) Swollen-thighed Beetle Oedemera nobilis (male) Pellucid Hoverfly...

I've been seeing a single fox cub for a few days now, but it always runs away under cover. The vixen has been leaving food out. Today there were two cubs present, initially they seemed to be asleep and stayed their ground rather than running away, perhaps safety in numbers. The nearest one...

Antonio, your rock shots remind me of my local coast here in south Devon, and at the moment here it's probably not far short of being a similar temperature. I think the last captures the restless movement of the ocean particularly well. Barrie

Cooling off on a hot day 140721-1100569 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr Barrie

A quick drink On Dartmoor today, mainly to photograph wild plants. This pony came down to drink with her foal. A quick change from my old manual focus 105mm Nikon macro lens to the good old 14-45mm Panasonic zoom. She seemed a little nervous of me, and didn't stay long before returning the way...

Natuarlist man and boy, and that's been a long time :biggrin: , something spiritual for me, and a mental saviour. Barrie

Luke, that's the difference between a photographer and a naturalist, you fall into one camp, I fall into the other :smile: Barrie

Emerald Damselfly Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa 140714-1010655 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr male 140714-1010643 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr female Barrie

We certainly need to disagree on perpetuating the ignorant myth about people in Devon being out of touch and behind the times! Barrie

Bill, I've got several reference sources to Dragonflies, not a single one mentions the English name Blue Hawker, neither does the British Dragonfly Society. Barrie

Bill, your book has some strange English common names. It would be just too incredible for it to be Aeshna affinis, as far as I can see there's one record from Kent in 1952! and there are significant differences between that species and your photographs. Just what is a Blue Hawker? I've never...

Still waiting The male Black Darters Sympetrum danae have still yet to fully mature, come on guys! 140707-1010576 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr immature male 140707-1010569 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr mature female Barrie

A better result today Last weeks effort to photograph an Emerald Damselfly Lestes sponsa was second rate to say the least. Hopefully you'll agree that todays results are somewhat better. 140707-1010547 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr female 140707-1010565 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr male...

No problems, I should have quoted you, then it would have caught your attention. Thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. Barrie

Yet another good day on Dartmoor I tried a different area today, following a small stream up Deancombe until my eye was taken with what must have been a spring fed area of damp sphagnum moss, rushes and Marsh St John's Wort. I'd been there several minutes when my eye was caught by a glint low...

An insect in the making A larva, it was feeding on Soft Rush (posed here on a dead stem), not the commonest of food plants, a sort of reverse search enabled by a site from "up north" (Northumberland Moths) which helpfully lists food plant and then what feeds on it, produced a result that fits...

Luke, I don't know if you saw my reply to your query, I failed to link it by quoting you, but it's post #81 at the top of page 9

Two new species for me today! Having put in a lot of effort for small reward over the last few days, today I've seen two new species for me, one I've been hoping for and one was unexpected. 140702-1010483 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr Immature male Black Darter Sympetrum danae...

Paul, ten out of ten for suggesting the inclusion of a scale, but non is needed for that species, it is indeed an Elephant Hawkmoth. Barrie

Luke, camera Panasonic G6, lens Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro with a four thirds mount, Panasonic DMW-MA1 four thirds/micro four thirds adapter and Olympus 1.4 x Teleconverter EC-14, making the Sigma lens equivalent to 294mm in 35mm terms. That outfit is tripod mounted. I use manual focus. I...

More from the moor 140630-1010417 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr female Large Red Damselfly 140630-1010425 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr ovipositing pair of Large Red Damselflies 140630-1010435 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr female Keeled Skimmer Orthetrum coerulescens...

Beware, pollinator at work 140613-1010237 by barrie.whitehall, on Flickr Barrie

Bill, Given that your image above shows an insect with all black legs that would appear to suggest that it is indeed a Ruddy Darter, compare those to the previous female Darter species which showed yellow striped legs. The two species (Common and Ruddy) can happily breed in the same pond. I...