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A new duck on Milton Common ponds.

These two pictures of a juvenile mandarin duck were taken by Lorna Riches on 13th July.

Oxenbourne down 1st July

The bee orchid above is the variety belgarum.

Southmoors on 21st June

Roe deer in a Fareham Garden

Last Tuesday about 4.30pm my [Eric Eddles] eldest son who lives in Fareham, looking out of his front room window wondered why a dog was in their garden.  He rushed and got his mobile phone and managed to get these shots of this beautiful creature.  Quite unconcerned it turned and looked at him and continued eating from their ornamental cherry tree.  Before it consumed all the leaves he had to drive it off.  It hopped over the wall and away it went.  God bless you. Eric Eddles

Garden Wildlife.

The first two pictures are of mating damsel flies - azures and large reds.  The middle picture is a close up of the head of a dark red.  The flowers are corn cockle and broad leaved willowherb.  All taken in my Portsdown garden

Hookheath 8th & 9th June

Beautiful demoiselle, heath spotted, hybrid and southern marsh orchids and Nik Knight's p1cture of a walk in the SSSI on 9th June..

  Chicken of the woods in the churchyard at Catherington. 21st may 2010

Portsdown w/e May 21st

A common shrew, hairy rock cress, slad burnet and a garden escape spurge.

Robins

Pictures by Carole Nash and Adele Mallows

Green winged orchids at Gunner Point HI.

15th May 2010.

Reptiles in Havant Thicket

Martin Crakes pictures of a grass snake and slow worms.

Flowers at Lowton's Copse and Hollybank Woods. Early May

The toothwort and dog violet are at Lowton's Copse and the early purple orchids at Hollybank Woods.  There were also some of the orchids just beginning to open at Lowton's Copse.

Flowers at Stansted.

Cuckoo flower, wood sorrel and Norway maple.

Newts

The top two pictures are palmate newts.  Notice the webbed back feet and little filament on the end of the tail

The lower pictures are a smooth newt and a picture of the two species together to give a size comparison.

Portsdown 21st April

Cowslips are now common in most of the expected places.  the green hairstreak was a nice find at the bottom of Compartment 4 where there were at least 3 of them.  The peculiar yellow stuff on the end of a stick is we think a slime mould.

Pictures from Baffins and Waterlooville.

The pictures of a barnacle goose and little grebe were sent to me by Eric Eddles and the nuthatches at a Waterlooville nest box by John & Val Vardon.

Portsdown pictures Early may

Hairy violets, lesser celandine and my attempt to focus on a beefly!